Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To remove ice from (something).

    They had to move the plane back from the runway to deice the wings before takeoff.

    enteisen

    make or become free of frost or ice

  2. (intransitive)To lose its ice; to thaw.

Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
(transitive) to remove ice from (something):

Forms

deices, deicing, deiced, deiced
Base formdeice · to deice
3rd person singulardeices
Present participledeicing
Past simpledeiced
Past participledeiced

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydeice
he, she, itdeices

Past simpleLesson

all personsdeiced

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave deiced
he, she, ithas deiced

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill deice

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • make or become free of frost or ice:defrostde-ice

Word family

2 related words
Relateddefrostdeicer

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
dehumanizationdehumanizeB2dehydratedehydrationdeifydeigndeitydeject

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