dethaw

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verb

become or cause to become soft or liquid
- The sun melted the ice
- the ice thawed
- the ice cream melted
- The heat melted the wax
- The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase
- dethaw the meat
• Syn:
dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw, melt
• Derivationally related forms:
meltable (for: melt), melt (for: melt), melter (for: melt), melting (for: melt), thaw (for: thaw), thawing (for: thaw)
• Hypernyms:
liquefy, flux, liquify
• Hyponyms:
deliquesce, defrost, deice, de-ice
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something