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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To remove ice or frost from.
  • intransitive verb To cause to thaw.
  • intransitive verb To become free of ice or frost.
  • intransitive verb To become thawed.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To remove the effects of frost or freezing from; restore to a sound unfrozen condition or state.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To become free of frost or ice.
  • intransitive verb To thaw; -- used especially of items removed from a freezer, such as frozen foods.
  • transitive verb To remove the frost or ice from.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To remove frost from.
  • verb transitive To thaw something.
  • verb informal, intransitive To recover from something tiresome.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb make or become free of frost or ice

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  • I stay in to defrost the fridge

    Now the kid has gone to bed

    A feeling of dread.

    At least when she's around the troubles there,

    It's worse to wake up with her falling round the room.

    (Slow graffiti, by Belle and Sebastian)

    November 13, 2008