Etymology
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de- + frost
Pronunciation
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defrost (third-person singular simple present defrosts, present participle defrosting, simple past and past participle defrosted)
- (transitive) To remove frost from.
- I have just defrosted the fridge.
- (transitive) To thaw something.
- Will you defrost the chops for supper tonight?
- (informal, intransitive) To recover from something tiresome.
- See you tomorrow evening; I'll have defrosted from my trip by then.
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Translations
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to remove frost from
- Catalan: descongelar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 除霜 (zh) (chúshuāng), 解凍／解冻 (zh) (jiědòng)
- Czech: odmrazit
- Danish: afrime
- Finnish: poistaa huurre, poistaa jää, sulattaa (fi)
- French: décongeler (fr), dégivrer (fr), déglacer (fr)
- German: entfrosten (de)
- Hungarian: olvaszt (hu), kiolvaszt (hu), felolvaszt (hu)
- Japanese: 解凍する (ja) (かいとうする, kaitō suru)
- Malay: nyahfros
- Polish: odmrozić, rozmrozić (pl)
- Portuguese: descongelar (pt)
- Russian: размора́живать (ru) impf (razmoráživatʹ), разморо́зить (ru) pf (razmorózitʹ)
- Spanish: descongelar (es), deshelar (es)
- Swedish: avfrosta (sv)
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to thaw
- Catalan: descongelar (ca), desglaçar (ca), desgelar (ca)
- Czech: rozmrazit
- Finnish: sulattaa (fi)
- French: décongeler (fr)
- German: auftauen (de)
- Hungarian: olvad (hu), felolvad (hu), kiolvad (hu), felenged (hu)
- Ingrian: sulattaa
- Italian: scongelare (it)
- Maori: whakarewa
- Polish: odmrozić, rozmrozić (pl), odmrozić pf, odmrażać impf
- Portuguese: degelar (pt)
- Romanian: dezgheța (ro)
- Russian: размора́живать (ru) impf (razmoráživatʹ), разморо́зить (ru) pf (razmorózitʹ)
- Spanish: descongelar (es)
- Swedish: tina (sv)
- Ukrainian: розморо́жувати impf (rozmoróžuvaty), розморо́зити pf (rozmorózyty)
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to recover from something tiresome
defrost (countable and uncountable, plural defrosts)
- The removal of frost.
1953, Refrigeration Engineering, volume 61, page 531:But only recently has automatic quick defrost appeared on production models of domestic refrigerators.
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