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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
anti-freeze

also antifreeze, 1935, from use as an adjective (1913); from anti- + freeze (v.).

Usage examples of "anti-freeze".

All this was bad enough: but the frightening thing was that for every pint of radiator liquid lost and every pint of snow-water used to replace it, the anti-freeze became that much more diluted, and though we carried a small reserve drum of ethylene glycol its weight diminished perceptibly with every halt we made.

Hie anti-freeze in the water had been thinned down so much in the course of the day that I was pretty certain that, in those temperatures, it wouldn't take half an hour for the radiator water to freeze up and split open the cylinder jacket.