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Thaw

noun

1.

The process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid. Synonyms: melt, melting, thawing. "The thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours"

2.

Warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt. Synonyms: thawing, warming.

3.

A relaxation or slackening of tensions or reserve; becoming less hostile.

verb

(past & past part. thawed; pres. part. thawing)

1.

Become or cause to become soft or liquid. Synonyms: dethaw, dissolve, melt, unfreeze, unthaw. "The ice thawed" , "The ice cream melted" , "The heat melted the wax" , "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase" , "Dethaw the meat"

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"Thaw" Quotes from Famous Books

... seem always a kind of nightmare to me. I am going to take my writing-desk and go down to Florida to F——'s plantation, where we have now a home, and abide there until the heroic agony of betweenity, the freeze and thaw of winter, is over, and then I doubt not I can write my three hours a day. Meanwhile, I have a pretty good pile of manuscript.... The letters I have got about blossoming roses and loungers in linen coats, while we have been frozen and snowed up, have made my very soul long to be away. Cold ...

— Authors and Friends • Annie Fields

... cooking the potato, is to promote the expansion and separation of its cells; in other words, to render it mealy. Young potatoes are always waxy, and consequently less wholesome than ripe ones. Potatoes which have been frozen and allowed to thaw quickly are much sweeter and more watery, because in thawing the starch changes into sugar. Frozen potatoes should be thawed in cold water and cooked at once, or kept ...

— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg

... the first fine afternoon to walk over to Brail. It was more than three miles by the road, but she was a famous walker. The lanes were still impassable on account of the thaw; February had set in with unusual mildness: the snow had melted, the little lake at Woodcote was no longer a sheet of blue ice, and Eiderdown and Snowflake were dabbling joyously with their yellow bills in the water and their soft plumes ...

— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... so beautiful and illegant, though his own was in such brutheen.* Even his barn to wrack; and he was obliged to thrash his oats in the open air when ther would be a frost, and he used to lose one-third of it; and if there came a thaw, 'twould ...

— The Ned M'Keown Stories - Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of - William Carleton, Volume Three • William Carleton

... and I indulged in the luxury of a long, comprehending gaze into the depths of each other's eyes. Katrina returned, and we all talked at once; for five minutes reminiscences and confidences flowed with the freedom of a mountain stream after a thaw. ...

— Many Kingdoms • Elizabeth Jordan

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