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verb (used without object)
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to pass or change from a frozen to a liquid or semiliquid state; melt.
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to be freed from the physical effect of frost or extreme cold (sometimes followed by out): Sit by the fire and thaw out.
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(of the weather) to become warm enough to melt ice and snow: It will probably thaw today.
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to become less formal, reserved, or aloof: He thawed at their kindness.
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to become less hostile or tense: International relations thawed.
verb (used with object)
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to cause to change from a frozen to a liquid or semiliquid state; melt.
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to free from the physical effect of frost or extreme cold; bring to a more normal temperature, especially to room temperature: I took the steaks out of the freezer and thawed them.
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to make less cold, formal, or reserved.
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to make less tense or hostile.
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Thawing
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
noun
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the act or process of thawing.
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the act or fact of becoming less formal, reserved, or aloof.
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a reduction or easing in tension or hostility.
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(in winter or in areas where freezing weather is the norm) weather warm enough to melt ice and snow.
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EXPANDa period of such weather: We had a two-week thaw in January.
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COLLAPSEthe thaw, the first day in the year when ice in harbors, rivers, etc., breaks up or loosens enough to begin flowing to the sea, allowing navigation: The Anchorage thaw came on May 18th.
Origin:
before 1000; (v.) Middle English thawen, Old English thawian; cognate with Dutch dooien, Old Norse theyja; (noun) late Middle English, derivative of the v.
before 1000; (v.) Middle English thawen, Old English thawian; cognate with Dutch dooien, Old Norse theyja; (noun) late Middle English, derivative of the v.
Related forms
thaw·less, adjective
re·thaw, verb
un·der·thaw, verb
un·thawed, adjective
un·thaw·ing, adjective
Can be confused: 1. evanesce, evaporate, liquefy, melt, thaw, transpire, vaporize (see synonym note at evaporate; see synonym note at melt1; see usage note at transpire); 2. evanescence, evaporation, liquefaction, melting, thawing, transpiration, vaporization.
Antonyms
1. freeze.
1. freeze.
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Word Origin & History
thaw
O.E. þawian, from P.Gmc. *thawojanan (cf. O.N. þeyja, M.L.G. doien, Du. dooien, O.H.G. douwen, Ger. tauen "to thaw"), from PIE base *ta- "to melt, dissolve" (cf. Skt. toyam "water," Ossetic thayun "to thaw," Welsh tawadd "molten," Doric Gk. takein "to melt, waste, be consumed," O.Ir. tam
EXPAND "pestilence," L. tabes "a melting, wasting away, putrefaction," O.C.S. tajati "to melt"). The noun is c.1400, from the verb. Fig. sense of "relaxation of political harshness or hostility" is recorded from 1950, an image from the Cold War.
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