unfrost

present singular third person unfrosts · participle present unfrosting · participle past unfrosted · past unfrosted

1. transitiveTo remove the frost or frostiness from.

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   All the firm's editors were there, all its executives, many of its authors, and only the rapid early rounds of trays of champagne could unfrost the formality that seemed to seize all these people who were so congenial in office surroundings and so ill at ease in evening clothes on an occasion of enforced merrymaking.

   2011, Laura Z. Hobson, Consenting Adult

   Synonyms: thaw