1 to become or make sth warmer, especially food, so that it is no longer frozen:
[VN] Make sure you defrost the chicken completely before cooking. * [V] It will take about four hours to defrost.
2 [VN, V] when you defrost a refrigerator or FREEZER, or when it defrosts, you remove the ice from it
compareDE-ICE, MELT, THAW, UNFREEZE
3 [VN] (AmE) to remove ice from the surface of a car's windows
defroster noun
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