Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of defrost.
Examples
“It was a fun time, especially since I am 'defrosting' and have started to get used to the heat a little more.”
“I really wanted to order it from Exotic Meats, but they don’t have storage facilities and the idea of defrosting a fifty pound pig in my bathtub sounded, uh, less than appealing.”
“The Pepsi_Poodle is in the garage right now 'defrosting' from being out in the snow and is not very happy about it.”
“Meanwhile one boxer's mother – pungently scripted – pretends to be defrosting the fridge so that she can hide her own melting into tears.”
The Guardian: Hamlet; Passion; Beautiful Burnout; Wanderlust
“(No defrosting - no tapioca, fruit is still nicely firm and hasn't boiled over.)”
“So, start defrosting early by carrying a burst of candied orange, hydrangea blue, deep green or acid yellow in rich, scaly texture.”
“Food is the punctuation of life, a commercial break between those bothersome segments of work or play that require the use of our hands, thus prohibiting their availability for unwrapping, unpeeling, or defrosting.”
“But you may say, what about the enormous cost of freezing them and the subsequent defrosting?”
“Some dishes took almost an hour to heat in the oven; one required defrosting throughout the day.”
The Wall Street Journal: There's a Stuffed Quail in the Mail
“The defrosting sodden soil is teeming, churning with every creepy crawly thing that ever slithered out of a swamp.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘defrosting’.
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movement (slow)
words describing slow action or movement
( open list, randomness, descriptive )
related:
http://www.wordnik.co...creep, crawl, plod, slouch, idle, lumber, tiptoe, bend, amble, mosey, saunter, loiter and 117 more...
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Former ghosts
Ghost words that I've adopted because the original listers abandoned them. Yarb has more in his Adoption agency, and many orphlings are tagged as ghosted, ghost phrases, misspellings, or typos.
orphling, listkeeper, grandmotherly, scroogish, theocon, frownie, afternoons, loggin, supercalliwhat, avunculate, kokako, stygimolochs and 379 more...
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