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de-ice

British pronunciation/dəɹˈaɪs/
American pronunciation/dəˈaɪs/
to de-ice
[VERB]
MAIN VERB
1

make or become free of frost or ice

synonyms : defrost
deice
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Examples
1And it was snowy, the pilot hadn't had a lot of experience with cold weather, he chose to take off before de-icing the plane engine one more time, and they crashed within minutes and just about everybody died, only two people survived.
2And also in the winter: humans dump literally tons of salt on roads to de-ice them.
3The other top cabin cleaning companies in the U.S. are a mix of private and public companies that offer a range of services from de-icing airplanes to baggage handling.
4It uses it in fracking and other fossil fuel operations and then it has like this whole other side-business of selling calcium chloride in sacks to the food industry, to the construction industry, to the road de-icing industry, to airports, using it for water purification.
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