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Deice

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To make or keep free of ice; melt ice from: deiced the plane's wings before takeoff.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To remove the ice from something.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. to remove ice or frost from.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. make or become free of frost or ice

Word Usage

"The flight data recorder indicated airplane deice, which is a system in the airplane that helps deice those wings and windshields and surfaces on that aircraft, that the airplane deice was selected in the on position."

Verb Form

deiced deices deicing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

unfreeze dethaw unthaw thaw melt dissolve

Cross Reference

defrost

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

defrost