Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To remove ice or frost from.
- intransitive verb To cause to thaw.
- intransitive verb To become free of ice or frost.
- intransitive verb To become thawed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To remove the effects of frost or freezing from; restore to a sound unfrozen condition or state.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To remove the frost or ice from.
- intransitive verb To become free of frost or ice.
- intransitive verb To thaw; -- used especially of items removed from a freezer, such as frozen foods.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To remove
frost from. - verb transitive To
thaw something. - verb informal, intransitive To recover from something
tiresome .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make or become free of frost or ice
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Examples
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Those fridge/freezer combos have a "defrost" cycle which lets things get above freezing, which creates water vapor on items, which adds to freezer burn.
Use Your Freezer Efficiently To Save Money (and Food) | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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For this, perhaps you mean season 8 episode "New Order" when they "defrost" Jack and he sees that Teal'c has hair and he starts asking "Teal'c, what's with the hair?"
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Those fridge/freezer combos have a "defrost" cycle which lets things get above freezing, which creates water vapor on items, which adds to freezer burn.
Use Your Freezer Efficiently To Save Money (and Food) | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I can never get my "defrost" setting to work right.
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I can never get my "defrost" setting to work right.
January 2008 2008
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You can activate this at home by pressing the "defrost" button.
Powerless NSA? Jim Horning 2006
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You can activate this at home by pressing the "defrost" button.
Archive 2006-08-01 Jim Horning 2006
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Which means I have to start including more stories about projectile vomiting and climbing on the hoods of cars in the dead of winter and pissing on the windshields in order to drunkenly "defrost" the windshield.
unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2004
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"The Minions can, in their inimitably violent way, 'defrost' him and then give chase as he knuckles out into the snowy wastes of the Hunting Grounds, near the town of Nordberg."
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GE Consumer & Industrial announced recently that it would create a new line of "smart" refrigerators that would be able to avoid running energy-consuming tasks, such as defrost cycles, during power grid peak times.
Prolagus commented on the word defrost
I stay in to defrost the fridge
Now the kid has gone to bed
A feeling of dread.
At least when she's around the troubles there,
It's worse to wake up with her falling round the room.
(Slow graffiti, by Belle and Sebastian)
November 13, 2008