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verb

thaw v. t. To cause (frozen things, as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.

thaw v. i. (past & past part. thawed; pres. part. thawing)

To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws.

To become so warm as to melt ice and snow; said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.

Fig.: To grow gentle or genial. Compare cold (4), a. and hard (6), a.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thawing" Quotes from Famous Books

... unemployment in private industry than can be gained by further expansion of employment by the Federal Government. We can now stimulate employment and agriculture more effectually and speedily through the voluntary measures in progress, through the thawing out of credit, through the building up of stability abroad, through the home loan discount banks, through an emergency finance corporation and the rehabilitation of the railways and other ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... of the mottled cannon-ball, however, and unlimited mugs of highly-sugared tea, had the effect of thawing them down a little, but nothing could ...

— The Walrus Hunters - A Romance of the Realms of Ice • R.M. Ballantyne

... and the men's faces all aglow. One of them's roasting a piece of meat, another fish, on a skewer, and the others bring out their frozen bread and thaw it soft and fresh as if it had just come out of the oven. And I do the same, toasting a piece of meat and thawing some bread, and put one on the other and cut up your part with my knife, to ...

— The Song Of The Blood-Red Flower • Johannes Linnankoski

... impatience. This hope was much strengthened by a circumstance which occurred to-day, and which, trifling as it would have appeared in any other situation than ours, was to us a matter of no small interest and satisfaction. This was no other than the thawing of a small quantity of snow in a favourable situation upon the black paintwork of the ship's stern, which exactly faced the south; being the first time that such an event had occurred for ...

— Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the • Sir William Edward Parry

... does now, as yu can see by lookin' out of th' window. That's him down th' street," enlightened the host, thawing to the pleasant ...

— Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up - Bar-20 • Clarence Edward Mulford

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