UNTHAW
Dictionary entry overview: What does unthaw mean?
• UNTHAW (verb)
The verb UNTHAW has 1 sense:
1. become or cause to become soft or liquid
Familiarity information: UNTHAW used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• UNTHAW (verb)
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 "unthaw" is one way to...):
flux; liquefy; liquify (become liquid or fluid when heated)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "unthaw"):
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
"Liquor before beer and you're in the clear. Beer before liquor and you'll never be sicker." (English proverb)
"Sorrow, nobody dies about it" (Breton proverb)
"He laughs most he who laughs last." (Arabic proverb)
"Nothing is blacker than the pan." (Corsican proverb)
