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Synonyms for thaw

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for thaw

to change from a solid to a liquid

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Synonyms for thaw

the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid

warm weather following a freeze

a relaxation or slackening of tensions or reserve

become or cause to become soft or liquid

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These, thawed and warmed in the frying-pan, constituted their meal.
SIX thousand Scots homes were without water supplies yesterday as the thaw set in.
FAIRFIELD, N.J.--With a successful direct-response television campaign under its belt, the marketers of the Miracle Thaw defrosting tray have recently hit the retail market.
Moreover, the thaw can cause increased emissions of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane from the ground.
This thaw allows oxygen to seep further into the non-acidic soil and to decompose more organic matter, releasing carbon dioxide as a byproduct.
Frozen blocks of meat and fish are usually thawed for industrial processing in heated enclosures using circulating air heaters.
When the soil thaws, the rock settles down, but not quite as far, so that after a number of seasons the combined action of the soil convection and the clast movement results in a sorted pattern.
To display and professionally store their growing collection the Thaws successfully negotiated with the Fenimore Museum trustees to build a wing addition to the museum located in Cooperstown, New York.
The rapid warming of the Arctic, which is proceeding at a rate at least twice that of the world as a whole, and the subsequent melt and thaw of ice, snow, and permafrost is compromising the region's function as the "air conditioner for the world," Highleyman said.
At the study site, the Stordalen Mire near Abisko National Park in Sweden, just north of the Arctic Circle, the researchers compared intact permafrost, partially thawed permafrost, and fully thawed "boggy" permafrost.
For a new season of below-ground creative activity by earthworms and their fellow soil workers, we need to wait only until the subsoil thaws and the worms signal the parade to begin!
"All evidence to date shows that carbon in permafrost is likely to play a significant role in the 21st century climate given the large carbon deposits, the readiness of its organic matter to release greenhouse gases when thawed, and the fact that high latitudes will experience the largest increase in air temperature of all regions," he added.
When the dough was frozen or thawed, the highest determination coefficient occurred when the researchers added 10% granulated inulin.
Musselburgh are also due to race on Friday, but officials were disappointed by the sluggish thaw yesterday.