Meanings
present singular third person defrosts · participle present defrosting · participle past defrosted · past defrosted
- transitiveTo remove frost from.
I have just defrosted the fridge.
1 more example
After leaving the service, he [Jack Schweibold] flew for Chicago Helicopter Airways and Butler Aviation as a jack-of-all-trades. “I flew the first traffic patrol for the Chicago freeways, defrosted tomato crops by keeping the wind blowing on them so the frost couldn’t form,[…]” he says.
1985 March 24, Moselle Schaffer, “Around Town: He Looks for Trouble […]”, in Star Magazine (The Indianapolis Star), Indianapolis, Ind., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16, column 2 - informalintransitiveTo recover from something tiresome.
See you tomorrow evening; I'll have defrosted from my trip by then.
plural defrosts
- countableuncountableThe removal of frost.
But only recently has automatic quick defrost appeared on production models of domestic refrigerators.
1953, Refrigeration Engineering, volume 61, page 531
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*de
- Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
- Proto-Italic*dē
- Latindē
- Latindē-
- Englishde-
- Proto-Indo-European*prews-
- Proto-Indo-European*prustós
- Proto-Germanic*frustaz
- Proto-West Germanic*frost
- Old Englishfrost
- Middle Englishfrost
- Englishfrost
- Englishdefrost
Translations
Catalan descongelar, descongelar
- descongelarto remove frost from
- descongelarto thaw
- desglaçarto thaw
- desgelarto thaw
Chinese Mandarin 除霜, 解凍 /解冻
- 除霜 (chúshuāng)to remove frost from
- 解凍 /解冻 (jiědòng)to remove frost from
- 解凍 /解冻 (jiědòng)to thaw
Czech odmrazit, rozmrazit
- odmrazitto remove frost from
- rozmrazitto thaw
Danish afrime
- afrimeto remove frost from
Finnish poistaa huurre, poistaa jää
- poistaa huurreto remove frost from
- poistaa jääto remove frost from
- sulattaato remove frost from
- sulattaato thaw
- palautuato recover from something tiresome
French décongeler, dégivrer
- décongelerto remove frost from
- dégivrerto remove frost from
- déglacerto remove frost from
- décongelerto thaw
German entfrosten, auftauen
- entfrostento remove frost from
- auftauento thaw
Hungarian olvaszt, kiolvaszt
- olvasztto remove frost from
- kiolvasztto remove frost from
- felolvasztto remove frost from
- olvadto thaw
- felolvadto thaw
- kiolvadto thaw
- felengedto thaw
- felengedto recover from something tiresome
- kiengedto recover from something tiresome
Italian scongelare
- scongelareto thaw
Japanese 解凍する
- 解凍する (kaitō suru)to remove frost from
Malay nyahfros
- nyahfrosto remove frost from
Māori whakarewa
- whakarewato thaw
Polish odmrozić, rozmrozić
- odmrozićto remove frost from
- rozmrozićto remove frost from
- odmrozićto thaw
- rozmrozićto thaw
- odmrozićto thaw
- odmrażaćto thaw
Portuguese descongelar, degelar
- descongelarto remove frost from
- degelarto thaw
Romanian dezgheța
- dezghețato thaw
Russian размора́живать, разморо́зить
- размора́живать (razmoráživatʹ)to remove frost from
- разморо́зить (razmorózitʹ)to remove frost from
- размора́живать (razmoráživatʹ)to thaw
- разморо́зить (razmorózitʹ)to thaw
Spanish descongelar, deshelar
- descongelarto remove frost from
- deshelarto remove frost from
- descongelarto thaw
- recuperarseto recover from something tiresome
Swedish avfrosta, tina
- avfrostato remove frost from
- tinato thaw
Ukrainian розморо́жувати, розморо́зити
- розморо́жувати (rozmoróžuvaty)to thaw
- розморо́зити (rozmorózyty)to thaw
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
defrost. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/defrost
“defrost.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/defrost. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “defrost,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/defrost.
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