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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: become or cause to become soft or liquid; "The sun melted the ice"; "the ice thawed"; "the ice cream melted"; "The heat melted the wax"; "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase"; "dethaw the meat" [syn: dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw, dethaw, melt]
2: make (assets) available; "release the holdings in the dictator's bank account" [syn: unblock, unfreeze, free, release] [ant: block, freeze, immobilise, immobilize]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (unfroze; unfrozen; -freezing) Date: 1584 1. to cause to thaw 2. to remove from a freeze <unfreeze wages>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. (past unfroze; past part. unfrozen) 1 tr. cause to thaw. 2 intr. thaw. 3 tr. remove restrictions from, make (assets, credits, etc.) realizable.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Unfreeze Un*freeze", v. t. [1st pref. un- + freeze.] To thaw. [Obs.]