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Thaw

(n.) 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.

(v. i.) Fig.: To grow gentle or genial.

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

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

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

OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. (See Project Gutenburg.)

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