unfrozen

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ frozen.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʌnˈfɹəʊ.zən/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ʌnˈfɹoʊ.zən/

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• Rhymes: -əʊzən
• Hyphenation: un‧fro‧zen

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.

   • 1959 February, “Letters to the Editor:Diggle Water Troughs”, in Railway Magazine, page 135:

     Diggle Station lies high up in the Pennine Chain, subject to extreme low temperatures. With this and heavy snowfall in the winter months, Diggle bids fair to compete with the Scottish lines under similar weather conditions, and the provision of unfrozen water in the higher ambient temperature of the tunnel must be a boon to harassed engine drivers whose thirsty steeds run short of water up the gruelling 1 in 125 seven-mile climb from Stalybridge.

   • 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.