Unfrost

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To remove the frost or frostiness from. transitive

    "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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"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."

Etymology

From un- + frost.

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