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THAWED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
No longer frozen
Example:
the thawed ground was muddy
Classified under:
Similar:
unfrozen (not frozen)
Sense 2
Meaning:
No longer frozen solid
Example:
the thawed ice was treacherous
Classified under:
Similar:
liquid; liquified; melted (changed from a solid to a liquid state)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb thaw
Context examples:
Then up rose from the hill in the rugged Cantabrian valley a sound such as had not been heard in those parts before, nor was again, until the streams which rippled amid the rocks had been frozen by over four hundred winters and thawed by as many returning springs.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Messner took the thawed salmon outside and fed his dogs.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
So snug and warm was it, that he was loath to leave it when François distributed the fish which he had first thawed over the fire.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
She was an interesting person, this stern Australian nurse—taciturn, suspicious, ungracious, it took some time before Holmes’s pleasant manner and frank acceptance of all that she said thawed her into a corresponding amiability.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He thawed some sour-dough biscuits in the oven, at the same time heating a pot of beans he had boiled the night before and that had ridden frozen on the sled all morning.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
In its frozen state it was more like strips of galvanized iron, and when a dog wrestled it into his stomach it thawed into thin and innutritious leathery strings and into a mass of short hair, irritating and indigestible.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
