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thawing

 
Noun thawing has 2 senses
  1. thaw, 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"
    --1 is a kind of heating, warming; phase change, phase transition, state change, physical change
    Derived form: verb thaw1
  2. thaw, thawing, warming - warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt; "they welcomed the spring thaw"
    --2 is a kind of weather, weather condition, atmospheric condition
Verb thaw has 1 sense
  1. dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw, 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"
    --1 is one way to liquefy, flux, liquify
    Derived forms: noun thaw2, noun thaw1, noun thawing1
    Sample sentence:
    The chefs thaw the vegetables
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