unmelt

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ melt.

Verb

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unmelt (third-person singular simple present unmelts, present participle unmelting, simple past and past participle unmelted)

  1. (intransitive) To undergo the process of melting in reverse.
    • 2008, Arieh Ben-Naim, Entropy Demystified, page 208:
      Eggs break, but do not unbreak; candles melt, but they don't unmelt; memories are of the past, never of the future; []
    • 2002, Dale Bick Carlson, Kishore Khairnar, In and Out of Your Mind: Teen Science: Human Bites, page 76:
      A snowflake does not unmelt.

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