unfreeze

un- +‎ freeze

• Rhymes: -iːz

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unfreeze (third-person singular simple present unfreezes, present participle unfreezing, simple past unfroze, past participle unfrozen)

1. (transitive) To defrost something.
2. (intransitive) To thaw.
3. (intransitive) To resume movement.

   He lowered the gun, and we unfroze.

4. (transitive, computing) To release from a previously locked or frozen state.
5. (transitive, finance) To release previously suspended financial assets.
   • 2023 March 28, Matthew Goldstein, “Sam Bankman-Fried Is Charged With Foreign Bribery”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     The indictment said that after Mr. Bankman-Fried received confirmation that the accounts were unfrozen, the rest of the bribe money was paid.

• defrost

• freeze