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Enfreeze vs Unfreeze - What's the difference?

enfreeze | unfreeze |

As verbs the difference between enfreeze and unfreeze

is that enfreeze is (obsolete|transitive) to freeze; to congeal while unfreeze is to defrost something.

enfreeze

English

Verb

  • (obsolete) To freeze; to congeal.
    • Thou hast enfrozen her disdainful brest. — Spenser.
    (Webster 1913)

    unfreeze

    English

    Verb

  • To defrost something.
  • To resume movement.
    • He lowered the gun, and we unfroze .
  • (computing) To release from a previously locked or frozen state.
  • To thaw.

    • Synonyms

    * defrost

    Antonyms

    * freeze