unfrozen

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ frozen.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -əʊzən

Adjective

unfrozen (not comparable)

1. Not frozen.
   • 1915 April, Enos A. Mills, “In the Winter Snows”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 259:

     In getting out of this I found it easier to wade down a shallow unfrozen stream than to wallow through deep snow.

   • 1962 March, “Lessons of the Freeze-up”, in Modern Railways, page 145:

     One would assume that here the chief problem would be to keep the conductor rails and point mechanisms unfrozen.

Verb

unfrozen

1. past participle of unfreeze

References

• “unfrozen”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.