unthawing
unthawing is the present participle and gerund of unthaw.
Meaning of unthaw
Verb
unthaw (third-person singular simple present unthaws, present participle unthawing, simple past and past participle unthawed)
- To thaw out, to unfreeze; to become soft (of something which had been frozen).
- The water steamed and bubbled around me. I felt a rush of gratitude for it, that it should well up out of the mountain, bathe my aching body, and unthaw my frozen limbs.2006, Lian Hearn, Grass for his pillow: The way through the snow
Adjective
unthawing (not comparable)
- That does not thaw; eternally frozen.
- So early, in truth, that in the days when tropical nature was to be found, where now lie eternal unthawing snows, one could cross almost by dry land from Norway via Iceland and Greenland, to the lands that at present surround Hudson's Bay.ca 1888, H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, Volume II, Anthropogenesis, pages 423—424
- What fairer home than Earth's eternal hill
Paved with unthawing snow, lit with the sun's
Unwinking lamp, […]1914, Rhys Carpenter, The Sun-Thief: and other poems, pages 6–7
Questions about unthawing
- What does unthawing mean?
- Unthawing means that does not thaw; eternally frozen.
- What is unthawing the present participle and gerund of?
- Unthawing is the present participle and gerund of unthaw.
- What part of speech is unthawing?
- Unthawing is an adjective.
Words near unthawing in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: unthawing (page history and authors); unthaw (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “unthawing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unthawing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.