unfrost

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ frost.

Verb

unfrost (third-person singular simple present unfrosts, present participle unfrosting, simple past and past participle unfrosted)

  1. (transitive) To remove the frost or frostiness from.
    Synonym: thaw
    • 2011, Laura Z. Hobson, Consenting Adult
      All the firm's editors were there, all its executives, many of its authors, and only the rapid early rounds of trays of champagne could unfrost the formality that seemed to seize all these people who were so congenial in office surroundings and so ill at ease in evening clothes on an occasion of enforced merrymaking.
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