4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thaw \Thaw\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Thawed}; p. pr & vb n.
{Thawing}.] [AS. [thorn][=a]wian, [thorn][=a]wan; akin to D.
dovijen G. tauen, thauen (cf. also verdauen 8digest, OHG.
douwen firdouwen), Icel. [thorn]eyja, Sw t["o]a, Dan.
t["o]e, and perhaps to Gr ? to melt. [root]56.]
1. To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; -- said of
that which is frozen; as the ice thaws.
2. To become so warm as to melt ice and snow; -- said in
reference to the weather, and used impersonally.
3. Fig.: To grow gentle or genial.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thaw \Thaw\, v. t.
To cause (frozen things as earth, snow, ice) to melt,
soften, or dissolve.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thaw \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.
--Dryden.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
thaw
n 1: the process of heating to change something from a solid to a
liquid; "they welcomed the spring thaw" [syn: {melt}, {thawing},
{melting}]
2: warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt [syn: {melting},
{thawing}, {warming}]
v : cause to thaw and become soft or liquid again "The sub
melted the ice" [syn: {unfreeze}, {unthaw}, {melt}]
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