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noun

thaw n. 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; also, a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is congealed.

verb

thaw v. t. To cause (frozen things, as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.

thaw v. i. (past & past part. thawed; pres. part. thawing)

To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws.

To become so warm as to melt ice and snow; said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.

Fig.: To grow gentle or genial. Compare cold (4), a. and hard (6), a.

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Etymology of 'Thaw'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thaw" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the Christmas air did not presage a thaw. When Mrs. Fletcher closed the windows in her son's room the following morning, and laid her hand on his motionless shoulder, she awakened him with a greeting of, "Come, son, look out and ...

— A Son of the City - A Story of Boy Life • Herman Gastrell Seely

... A thaw had come that morning, ending the severest frost experienced this winter anywhere in England, and the valley was alive with birds, happy and tuneful at the end of January as in April. Looking down on the stream the sudden glory of a kingfisher passed before me; but the sooty-brown water-ouzel ...

— Afoot in England • W.H. Hudson

... old, they speculated upon the coming thaws and trapping to be found down on the Little MacLeod and up towards the Silver Lake country, they told of the latest gold strike in the Black Bear hills and predicted fresh strikes to be made before the thaw was ten days old. Many types of men and women, some no doubt good, some bad no ...

— Wolf Breed • Jackson Gregory

... life, Thir, it'th a very fine piethe of work,' says Puddock, who viewed the wiglet with the eye of a stage-property man, and held it by a top lock near the candle. 'The very finetht piethe of work of the kind I ever thaw. 'Tith thertainly French. Oh, yeth—we can't do such thingth here. By Jove, Thir, what a wig that man ...

— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... of the New Year we returned to the line in the Brickstacks sector south of the canal, and the heavy snow and frost having been succeeded by a sudden thaw accompanied by rain, the condition of the trenches in the low ground can be better imagined than described. Leather jerkins were quickly supplemented by "boots, gum, thigh," and the British soldier came to assume the appearance of a Yarmouth fisherman. Runners, etc., arriving at company H.Q., would ...

— The Seventh Manchesters - July 1916 to March 1919 • S. J. Wilson

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