DEICE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does deice mean?

• DEICE (verb)
The verb DEICE has 1 sense:

1. make or become free of frost or ice

Familiarity information: DEICE used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DEICE (verb)

Conjugation:

Present simple: I / you / we / they deice

... he / she / it deices

Past simple: deiced

Past participle: deiced

-ing form: deicing

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make or become free of frost or ice

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

de-ice; defrost; deice

Context example:

Defrost the car window

Hypernyms (to "deice" 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

Derivation:

deicer (heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane))

Context examples

Component of deicing mixtures and preservatives.

(Methyl alcohol, NCI Thesaurus)

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