deicing

Verb

deice (third-person singular simple present deices, present participle deicing, simple past and past participle deiced)

1. (transitive) To remove ice from (something).
   • They had to move the plane back from the runway to deice the wings before takeoff.
2. (intransitive) To lose its ice; to thaw.
   • Our streets are full of a general sloshiness that lingers and won't go away, as if a glacier is deicing to the north.1996, Jan Karon, A light in the window