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DE-ICE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does de-ice mean?
• DE-ICE (verb)
The verb DE-ICE has 1 sense:
1. make or become free of frost or ice
Familiarity information: DE-ICE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they de-ice ... he / she / it de-ices
Past simple: de-iced
Past participle: de-iced
-ing form: de-icing
... he / she / it de-ices Past simple: de-iced
Past participle: de-iced
-ing form: de-icing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make or become free of frost or ice
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
Context example:
Defrost the car window
Hypernyms (to "de-ice" is one way to...):
dethaw; dissolve; melt; thaw; unfreeze; unthaw (become or cause to become soft or liquid)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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