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unfrost

unfrost verb: to remove the frost or frostiness from.

Verb

unfrost (third-person singular simple present unfrosts, present participle unfrosting, simple past and past participle unfrosted)

  1. (transitive) To remove the frost or frostiness from.
    • All the firm's editors were there, all its executives, many of its authors, and only the rapid early rounds of trays of champagne could unfrost the formality that seemed to seize all these people who were so congenial in office surroundings and so ill at ease in evening clothes on an occasion of...2011, Laura Z. Hobson, Consenting Adult
    Synonyms:
    thaw

Synonyms of unfrost

Forms of unfrost

third-person singular presentunfrosts
present participleunfrosting
past participleunfrosted
pastunfrosted

Origin of unfrost

From un- + frost.

Questions about unfrost

What does unfrost mean?
Unfrost means to remove the frost or frostiness from.
What part of speech is unfrost?
Unfrost is a verb.
What is the past tense of unfrost?
The past tense of unfrost is unfrosted.

Words near unfrost in the dictionary

  1. unfrocks
  2. unfrogged
  3. unfroglike
  4. unfrolicsome
  5. unfronted
  6. unfrost
  7. unfrosted
  8. unfrosting
  9. unfrosts
  10. unfrosty
  11. unfroward

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