"dethaw" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: dethaws [present, singular, third-person], dethawing [participle, present], dethawed [participle, past], dethawed [past]
Etymology: From de- + thaw, by confusion with defrost or perhaps with words with null de- like defraud, decomplex. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|de|thaw}} de- + thaw Head templates: {{en-verb}} dethaw (third-person singular simple present dethaws, present participle dethawing, simple past and past participle dethawed)
  1. (nonstandard) To thaw; unthaw; unfreeze. Tags: nonstandard Related terms: unthaw, thaw

Inflected forms

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