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DETHAW

• DETHAW (verb)
The verb DETHAW has 1 sense:

1. become or cause to become soft or liquid

Familiarity information: DETHAW used as a verb is very rare.

• DETHAW (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Become or cause to become soft or liquid

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

dethaw; thaw; unfreeze; unthaw; melt; dissolve

Context examples:

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

Hypernyms (to "dethaw" is one way to...):

flux; liquefy; liquify (become liquid or fluid when heated)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dethaw"):

deliquesce (melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air)

de-ice; defrost; deice (make or become free of frost or ice)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

"Don't count your chickens before they're hatched."
(English proverb)
"When there is heart, there is pain."
(Albanian proverb)
"A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot; a dog traveling with good men becomes a rational being."
(Arabic proverb)
"A goose’s child is a swimmer."
(Egyptian proverb)

Useful links:
Definition of flux
Pronunciation of liquefy
Definition of liquify
Pronunciation of de-ice
Definition of defrost

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