Usually means: Thawing frozen food for use.
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  1. defrost: Merriam-Webster
  2. defrost: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defrost: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. defrost: Collins English Dictionary
  5. defrost: Vocabulary.com
  6. Defrost, defrost: Wordnik
  7. defrost: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. defrost: Wiktionary
  9. defrost: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. defrost: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. defrost: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. defrost: Dictionary.com
  13. defrost: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Defrost: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. defrost: Rhymezone
  16. defrost: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. defrost: FreeDictionary.org
  18. defrost: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. defrost: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. defrost: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. defrost: Encyclopedia

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  1. defrost: Urban Dictionary

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(Note: See defrosted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To remove frost from.
verb:  (transitive) To thaw something.
verb:  (informal, intransitive) To recover from something tiresome.
noun:  The removal of frost.

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