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defrost

/diːˈfɹɒst/US/diːˈfɹɔst/

defrost verb: to remove frost from.

Verb

defrost (third-person singular simple present defrosts, present participle defrosting, simple past and past participle defrosted)

  1. (transitive) To remove frost from.
    • I have just defrosted the fridge.
    • After leaving the service, he [Jack Schweibold] flew for Chicago Helicopter Airways and Butler Aviation as a jack-of-all-trades. “I flew the first traffic patrol for the Chicago freeways, defrosted tomato crops by keeping the wind blowing on them so the frost couldn’t form,[…]” he says.1985 March 24, Moselle Schaffer, “Around Town: He Looks for Trouble […]”, in Star Magazine (The Indianapolis Star), Indianapolis, Ind., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16, column 2
  2. (transitive) To thaw (something).
    • Will you defrost the chops for supper tonight?
  3. (informal, intransitive) To recover from something tiresome.
    • See you tomorrow evening; I'll have defrosted from my trip by then.

Noun

defrost (countable and uncountable, plural defrosts)

  1. The removal of frost.
    • But only recently has automatic quick defrost appeared on production models of domestic refrigerators.1953, Refrigeration Engineering, volume 61, page 531

defrost meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Malay

defrost in Tamil

நீர்த்தல், பனிக்கட்டி

defrost in Kannada

ಹಿಮವನ್ನು ತೆಗೆದುಹಾಕು

defrost in Malay

to remove frost from
nyahfros

Examples of defrost in a sentence

  • When spring comes, the frogsicle defrosts and shivers back to life.
  • Insufficient defrosting causes electricity waste by overworking the cabinet and also results in high temperatures.
  • Freezing also produces quaq, the Arctic's favorite protein dish made by freezing raw protein and eating it when partially defrosted.

All 10 example sentences with defrost

Forms of defrost

Verb
third-person singular presentdefrosts
present participledefrosting
past participledefrosted
pastdefrosted
Noun
pluraldefrosts

Past tense of defrost: defrosted

Origin of defrost

From de- + frost.

Words formed from defrost

Words that rhyme with defrost

4 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about defrost

What does defrost mean?
Defrost means to remove frost from.
What is defrost in Tamil?
Defrost in Tamil is நீர்த்தல், பனிக்கட்டி. See Defrost meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is defrost?
Defrost can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce defrost?
Defrost is pronounced /diːˈfɹɒst/ (UK).
What is the past tense of defrost?
The past tense of defrost is defrosted.

Words near defrost in the dictionary

  1. defrog
  2. defrogged
  3. defrogging
  4. defrogs
  5. Defronzo
  6. defrost
  7. defrostable
  8. defrosted
  9. defrostee
  10. defrostees
  11. defroster

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Adapted from Wiktionary: defrost (page history and authors); defrost (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); defrost (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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