Thaw

What do we mean by thaw?

To change from a frozen solid to a liquid by gradual warming. intransitive verb

To lose stiffness, numbness, or impermeability by being warmed. intransitive verb

To become warm enough for snow and ice to melt. intransitive verb

To become less formal, aloof, or reserved. intransitive verb

To cause to thaw. intransitive verb

The process of thawing. noun

A period of warm weather during which ice and snow melt. noun

A relaxation of reserve, restraints, or tensions. noun

The melting of ice or snow: also, the melting by heat of any substance congealed by frost. noun

Warmth of weather, such as liquefies or melts anything congealed. noun

The state of becoming less cold, formal, or reserved. noun

To pass from a frozen to a liquid or semi-fluid state; melt; dissolve: said of ice or snow; also, to be freed from frost; have the contained frost dissolved by heat: said of anything frozen.

To become so warm as to melt ice and snow; rise above a temperature of 32° Fahrenheit: said of the weather, and used impersonally.

To be released from any condition, physical or mental, resembling that of freezing; become supple, warm, or genial; be freed from coldness, embarrassment, formality, or reserve; unbend: often with out.

To reduce from a frozen to a liquid state, as ice or snow; also, to free from frost, as some frozen substance: often with out.

To render less cold, formal, or stiff; free from embarrassment, shyness, or reserve; make genial: often with out.

Synonyms Dissolve, Fuse, etc. See melt.

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. noun

To cause (frozen things, as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve. transitive verb

To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; -- said of that which is frozen. intransitive verb

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

A warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is frozen

Words that are spelled similarly to thaw:
thaw.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word thaw:
thawing, permafrost, gump, khrushchev, nikita, evelyn, yangon, freezing, insanity, frozen, morse, cracks, burmese, cycles, stalin, insane, melting, myanmar, stanford, yan, relations, greenland, cuban, frost, debris, snow, ice, inspector, cuba, soviet, pittsburgh, rain, ussr, cold, soil, flood, flooding, layer, madison, sergeant, depth, diplomatic, murder, moscow, trial, guilty, cycle, warm, architect, winter, flow, spring, roads.

Words that rhyme with thaw:
law, draw, saw, withdraw, awe, raw, bourgeois, la, paw, flaw, spa, straw, claw, haw, outlaw, schwa, maw, jaw, chutzpah, ra, voila, ya, qua, dada, ta, aha, da, gnaw, guffaw, yaw, pa, pasha, aw, ha, ma, cha, ah, ka, daw, shaw, bra, macaw, chihuahua, craw, redraw, seesaw, blah, na, coleslaw, caw, esau, gras, hoopla, nah, yah, sa, hurrah, ottawa, overdraw, bylaw, squaw, panama, utah, ga, slaw, pshaw, omaha, sha, chainsaw, jigsaw, ja, baccarat, whipsaw, wa, arkansas, rah, shah, moi, ona, xio, naw, bah, chaw, scrimshaw, hacksaw, dumas, grandpa, draugh, bois, ahh, doha, trois, faw, fermata, rawe, wah, gaw, hah, baja, mackinaw.

Adjectives that are often used to describe thaw:
sudden, first, great, freeze, rapid, early, slight, political, partial, general, brief, recent, cultural, slow, next, late, gradual, temporary, quick, heavy, complete, big, seasonal, real, subsequent, gentle, cold, annual, warm, mild, literary, unexpected, soviet, delusive, feeble, moist, called, universal, post, stalinist, ideological, regular, relative, diplomatic, unseasonable, apparent, intellectual, manifest, west, momentary, russian, theological, genuine, sun, frozen, fudden, liberal, wet, noticeable, day, distinct, premature, deeper, welcome, fortunate, perceptible, and, occasional, untimely, lived, polish, thorough.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective thaw:
cycles, cycle, resistance, action, stability, cycling, damage, durability, processes, process, conditions, test, water, tests, weathering, technique, motility, method, activity, treatment, freeze, procedure, deterioration, survival, effects, stress, mount, injury, attack, testing, events, consolidation, cryotherapy, procedures, viability, treatments, wind, out, step, rates, recovery, exposure, stabilizers, lysis, conditioning, protocol, experiments, mechanism, weakening, rigor, samples, rain, alternations, mechanisms, climates, wash, settlement, frequencies, weather, evaluation, sonication, disintegration, environments, lysate, slush, processing, exudate, degradation, increases, basins, transfers, protocols, resistant, abuse, lysates, chamber, aging.

Consonant match to thaw:
thigh, thew, thi.

Words that sound like thaw:
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