unthaw

Other forms of unthaw

past tense

unthawed·

present participle

unthawing·

third person

unthaws·

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 unthaw

What does unthaw mean?

unthaw means "become or cause to become soft or liquid".

How many syllables are in unthaw?

unthaw has 2 syllables: un-thaw. The stress falls on "thaw".

What is another word for unthaw?

Close synonyms include dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, 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.

Is unthaw a common word?

unthaw is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.