Word Direct Answers

What does "thaw" mean?

Thaw: To become so warm as to melt ice and snow; -- said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Fig.: To grow gentle or genial.
  2. 3.To cause (frozen things, as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.
  3. 4.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. Dryden.

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