Meanings (ES + gloss)
derretimiento • descongelación • deshelar • deshielo
The melting of ice, snow, or other frozen or congealed matter; the transformation of ice or the like into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost
Meanings (ES + gloss)
derretir • descongelar
To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen.
the ice thaws
derretir • descongelar
To gradually cause frozen things (such as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.
A further complication is that, in the winter, the ore arrives frozen stiff in the wagons and special arrangements have to be made for thawing it before it can be unloaded.
The frame of burnish'd steel, that cast a glare / From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air.
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