unfreezing

English

Verb

unfreezing

1. present participle and gerund of unfreeze

Noun

unfreezing (plural unfreezings)

1. The process of something being unfrozen.
   • 2015, Kevin Revolinski, 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Madison (page 116)

     […] and the sloping collection of fractured rocks—known as talus—that tumbled down from the quartzite bluffs during the repeated freezings and unfreezings of the last Ice Age.