1. The process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
   "the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours"
   - thaw, melt, melting 
2. Warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt
   - thaw, warming

1. Become or cause to become soft or liquid
   "the ice thawed"
   - dissolve, unfreeze, unthaw [N. Amer], dethaw, melt

Derived forms: thawings

Type of: atmospheric condition, conditions, flux, heating, liquefy, liquify, phase change, phase transition, physical change, state change, warming, weather, weather condition

Encyclopedia: Thaw

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