What does defrost mean?
Defrost means (transitive) To remove frost from..
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/diːˈfɹɒst/ · verb
(transitive) To remove frost from..
I have just defrosted the fridge.
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.
Will you defrost the chops for supper tonight?
See you tomorrow evening; I'll have defrosted from my trip by then.
But only recently has automatic quick defrost appeared on production models of domestic refrigerators.
Use defrost when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Defrost means (transitive) To remove frost from..
Common synonyms include deice.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I have just defrosted the fridge.
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