thaw
see also: Thaw
Pronunciation
Thaw
Proper noun
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see also: Thaw
Pronunciation
- IPA: /θɔː/
thaw (thaws, present participle thawing; past and past participle thawed)
- (intransitive) To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen
- the ice thaws
- (intransitive) To become so warm as to melt ice and snow — said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.
- It's beginning to thaw.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To grow gentle or genial.
- Her anger has thawed.
- (transitive) To gradually cause frozen things (such as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.
- c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene i], page 167 ↗, column Mor.}} Miſlike me not for my complexion, / The ſhadowed liuerie of the burniſht ſunne, / To whom I am a neighbour,and neere bred. / Bring me the faireſt creature North-ward borne, / Where Phœbus fire ſcarce thawes the yſicles, / And let vs make inciſion for your loue, / To proue whoſe blood is reddeſt,his or mine.:
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- 1700, John Dryden, "Palamon and Arcite", in Fables, Ancient and Modern:
- The frame of burnish'd steel, that cast a glare / From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air.
- French: dégeler
- German: tauen, schmelzen
- Italian: fondere, scongelare
- Portuguese: descongelar, derreter
- Russian: та́ять
- Spanish: descongelar, derretir
- German: auftauen
- Italian: fondere, scongelare
- Russian: раста́пливать
- Spanish: descongelar, derretir
thaw (plural thaws)
- 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
- French: dégel
- German: Schmelze
- Italian: disgelo
- Portuguese: degelo
- Russian: та́яние
- Spanish: deshelar, deshielo, descongelación, derretimiento
Thaw
Proper noun
- A river in South Wales which flows into the Bristol Channel at Aberthaw.
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