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thaw
English
Alternative forms
- thow
Etymology
From Middle English thowen, thawen, from Old English þ?wian, from Proto-West Germanic *þauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *þawjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *teh?- (“to melt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???/
- Rhymes: -??
Verb
thaw (third-person singular simple present thaws, present participle thawing, simple past and past participle thawed)
- (intransitive) To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen
- (intransitive) To become so warm as to melt ice and snow — said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To grow gentle or genial.
- (transitive) To gradually cause frozen things (such as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.
- 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.
- 1700, John Dryden, "Palamon and Arcite", in Fables, Ancient and Modern:
Translations
Noun
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
- raging floods pursue their hasty thaw ;
Our thaw was mild , the cold not chased away
- raging floods pursue their hasty thaw ;
Translations
See also
- unthaw, dethaw
- snowmelt
Anagrams
- HAWT, Wath, hawt, wath, what
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?au?/
Verb
thaw
- Aspirate mutation of taw.
Mutation
thaw From the web:
- what thaw means
- what thaws ice
- what thawed the snowball earth
- what thaws meat faster
- what thawed the last ice age
- what does a thaw mean
ungive
English
Etymology
From un- +? give.
Verb
ungive (third-person singular simple present ungives, present participle ungiving, simple past ungave, past participle ungiven)
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To yield; relax; slacken; give way; loosen.
- (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To melt; thaw.
- (transitive) To take back something that had been given.
- 1994, William Diehl, Primal Fear:
- "Impossible," Vail said. "She's going to work at one of the prestige films at the end of this month. She's already given notice!" "Well apparently she ungave it. [...]"
- 1994, William Diehl, Primal Fear:
Translations
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