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Meaning thaw meaning

What does thaw mean?
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thaw Verb

— If something thaws, it warms and melts. She took the meat out of the freezer to thaw. The ice on the roads thawed as the temperatures rose.

thaw Noun

— A thaw is a time when the temperature warms after a long cold time. The spring thaw melted all the snow. — A thaw is a time when the relationship between to people or groups improves after a bad relationship. The relation between North Korea and South Korea is beginning to thaw.

thaw

— verb (= dissolve, dethaw, melt) become or cause to become soft or liquid The sun melted the ice the ice thawed the ice cream melted The heat melted the wax The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase dethaw the meat — noun (= melt, thawing, melting) the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours — noun (= thawing, warming) warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt they welcomed the spring thaw — noun a relaxation or slackening of tensions or reserve; becoming less hostile the thaw between the United States and Russia has led to increased cooperation in world affairs

Synonyms thaw synonyms

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thaw English » English

melt dissolve defrost melting thawing unfreeze liquefy fuse unthaw warming liquify flux digest dethaw warm up smelt fuze caramelize caramelise warm weather unfreezing thaw out sweal stomach softened smelting scuff run rope relaxation rainy weather pine moderation mild weather meltdown melt down mellow macerate liquidize liquidise liquate languish hawser go to water fusion fry foul weather détente dissolving disperse

Topics thaw topics

What do people use thaw to talk about?
States Quality

Hot
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Snow, ice
Universe, creation World

Solid, liquid, gas

Conjugation thaw conjugation

How do you conjugate thaw?

thaw · verb

Examples thaw examples

How do I use thaw in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Thaw out the meat before cooking it.
This river sometimes overflows after the thaw.
The snow has started to thaw out.
Don't thaw the pizza before baking it.
The hoarfrost has not begun to thaw yet.
Salt is used to thaw ice.

Movie subtitles

Even if we thaw that, we've got little chance of getting it to perfuse.
Into the kitchen, son, and thaw out some ice.
And with the right handling I think we can even thaw out Mrs. Kirby in time.
When comes the thaw?
So we must start to thaw him out.
We thaw him.
How do you propose we thaw him, Leopold, with a blowtorch?
Your cold will thaw.
Maybe the thaw is actually setting in.
When a thaw sets in, anything can happen.
O that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew.
They'll thaw out this summer, and that will be it.
I think you should send us the biggest transport plane you have. and take this thing up to the Arctic or somewhere where it'll never thaw out.
To tell the truth, I sort of hoped maybe it would thaw you out a bit.
You'd need a radiator to thaw that one out!
I mean, a man spends three months in a deep freeze. it'll take his whole leave just to thaw him out.
Had to drop 'em in a frying pan to thaw 'em out, find out what we were talkin' about.
Still running cold. When comes the thaw?
And then the thaw.
He thinks: thaw, elevating the standard of living, liberalization, comfort, in brief, a turn toward this consumer society that he condemned with sarcasms as he saw it materialize.
I wonder if those Thaw parties are as absolutely spectacular as people say.
JOHN: You just relax and thaw out.
He was playing during the thaw.
You had to de-thaw the corn.
It's not that funny to thaw meatballs by yourself and lay the table for one person.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like you take someone while they're alive and you freeze them. Then you thaw them out a hundred years later like a TV dinner.
Smell it to thaw out!
Nothing, it's going to melt as soon as a thaw sets in, what else?

News and current affairs

But the thaw in EU-Belarus relations needs to be based on reciprocal, permanent steps.
Syrian poet and political analyst Ammar Abdulhamid suggests that a thaw - if not quite change, then perhaps its precursor - is now occurring in Syria.
The authorities clearly wish to control the extent of the thaw in Syria's political culture.
Whether this thaw yields more meaningful fruit hinges on the North maintaining its freeze on nuclear and missile tests.
Initially, President Bashar's accession to power was accompanied by a modest, but noticeable political thaw.
The Khrushchev thaw that followed may have been short-lived, but for the first time in Soviet history the possibility of change was opened - a possibility that Mikhail Gorbachev seized upon in 1985.
Soon, the gulag was virtually emptied; a political thaw began, spurring whispers of freedom that could not be contained.
But Khrushchev never envisioned the breakup of the Soviet empire as part of his thaw.
An atmosphere of mortal fear, mutual suspicion, and hatred among the Communist elite was the catalyst for Nikita Khrushchev's post-Stalin thaw.
For these reasons, barring any last-minute diplomatic indelicacies, the APEC Summit is likely to represent the start of a formal thaw in Sino-Japanese relations.
This does not yet add up to a thaw in the bilateral relationship, but it does suggest that Xi may be seeking a respite, at least until China's economy is on a more stable footing and his anti-corruption campaign begins to wind down.
All three parties involved will need to tread with care to make certain that the thaw in China-Taiwan relations is not set back by this proposed arms deal.
Perhaps, but it will do so only if it risks deep change, a new perestroika rather than simply a thaw.
Russian (or Soviet) leaders opt for perestroika or a thaw only when forced to do so by dire conditions that threaten the regime's survival.
Bilateral relations started to thaw 12 years ago, when Syria expelled the leader of the violent Kurdish separatist PKK movement, Abdullah Ocalan.
But the thaw in US-Cuba relations has not been welcomed by all US politicians.
While this time was no different, there are growing signs of a thaw in relations.
They also view Russia in terms of a tradition whereby every new tsar partly repudiates the legacy of his predecessor, creating a political thaw at the beginning of a new reign.

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