dethaw
5 synonyms for dethaw, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Verb — To make something that is frozen warm again so that it melts or softens.
Synonyms
Less common
Still standard English, but they carry more weight.
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Etymology
From de- + thaw, by confusion with defrost or perhaps with words with null de- like defraud, decomplex.
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