dethaw

verb

become or cause to become soft or liquid

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The sun melted the ice

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the ice thawed

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the ice cream melted

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The heat melted the wax

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The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase

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dethaw the meat

• Syn: ↑dissolve, ↑thaw, ↑unfreeze, ↑unthaw, ↑melt

• Derivationally related forms: ↑meltable (for: ↑melt), ↑melt (for: ↑melt), ↑melter (for: ↑melt), ↑melting (for: ↑melt), ↑thaw (for: ↑thaw), ↑thawing (for: ↑thaw)

• Hypernyms: ↑liquefy, ↑flux, ↑liquify

• Hyponyms: ↑deliquesce, ↑defrost, ↑deice, ↑de-ice

• Verb Frames:

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Something ——s

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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something