defrost

verb

1. (transitive)To remove frost from.

   “I have just defrosted the fridge.”

   “After leaving the service, he [Jack Schweibold] flew for Chicago Helicopter Airways and Butler Aviation as a jack-of-all-trades. “I flew the first traffic patrol for the Chicago freeways, defrosted tomato crops by keeping the wind blowing on them so the frost couldn’t form,[…]” he says.”

2. (transitive)To thaw (something).

   “Will you defrost the chops for supper tonight?”

3. (informal, intransitive)To recover from something tiresome.

   “See you tomorrow evening; I'll have defrosted from my trip by then.”

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The removal of frost.

   “But only recently has automatic quick defrost appeared on production models of domestic refrigerators.”