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Definition thaw

Etymology

From Middle English thowen, thawen, from Old English þ?wian (“to thaw”), from Proto-Germanic *þaw?n?, *þawjan? (“to thaw, melt”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh?- (“to melt”). Cognate with Scots thow (“to thaw”), West Frisian teie (“to thaw, melt”), Dutch dooien (“to thaw”), German tauen (“to thaw”), Swedish töa (“to thaw”), Icelandic þeyja (“to thaw”), Latin t?b?s (“melting, wasting away”), Ancient Greek ???? (t?k?), Polish taja? (“to thaw”).

Verb

thaw (third-person singular simple present thaws, present participle thawing, simple past and past participle thawed)

1. (intransitive) To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen
2. (intransitive) To become so warm as to melt ice and snow — said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.
3. (intransitive, figuratively) To grow gentle or genial.
4. (transitive) To gradually cause frozen things (such as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.

Noun

thaw (plural thaws)

1. 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
2. a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is frozen

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