unfreeze

Other forms of unfreeze

past tense or participle

unfroze

past tense or participle

unfrozen

present participle

unfreezing·

third person

unfreezes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about unfreeze

What does unfreeze mean?

unfreeze means "become or cause to become soft or liquid". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unfreeze?

unfreeze has 2 syllables: un-freeze. The stress falls on "freeze".

What is another word for unfreeze?

Close synonyms include dissolve, thaw, unthaw, dethaw, melt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of unfreeze?

The recorded antonyms are freeze.

Is unfreeze a common word?

unfreeze is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.