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DETHAW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dethaw mean?
• DETHAW (verb)
The verb DETHAW has 1 sense:
1. become or cause to become soft or liquid
Familiarity information: DETHAW used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become or cause to become soft or liquid
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
dethaw; dissolve; melt; thaw; unfreeze; unthaw
Context example:
dethaw the meat
Hypernyms (to "dethaw" is one way to...):
flux; liquefy; liquify (become liquid or fluid when heated)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dethaw"):
deliquesce (melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air)
de-ice; defrost; deice (make or become free of frost or ice)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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