unthawed

comparative more unthawed · superlative most unthawed

1. Which has not been thawed: still frozen.

   The sun burns your face as you smoke the after-breakfast pipe, but it leaves the snow unthawed.

   1907, Clarence Rook, Switzerland: the country and its people, page 188

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   For a time we struggled on, most intent upon evading the morasses; and staring at every patch of unthawed ice as on a treasure trove, until we reached a rocky knoll, on which we turned and looked downwards, from the bleak uninteresting moor to the dingy, featureless shores.

   1883, W. Anderson Smith, Benderloch: or, Notes from the West Highlands (17 February 1881), page 312

   Meat may also be thawed in cold water or in a microwave. Meat may be cooked whether or not it has thawed. However, unthawed meat requires more time to cook than does meat that has thawed, and partially frozen meat is apt to cook unevenly.

   2002, Wilbur F. Eastman, A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game, page 51

   At last a day came when the chill went from the air. The day started much as any other since we had left Crete. I sat in the wheelhouse with stiff, unthawed limbs, my eyes feeling pinched and my throat tight from smoking too much.

   2003, Leila Hadley, Give Me the World, page 326

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of unthaw