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thaw

 

  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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