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Word: thaw (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is congealed. ?w:Dryden.
  • The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost

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Verb:

  • intransitive|figuratively To grow gentle or genial.
  • intransitive To become so warm as to melt ice and snow; ? said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.
  • intransitive To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; ? said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws. Specifically by gradual warming
  • transitive To cause frozen things (such as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve. Specifically by gradual warming.

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