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Thaw
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- 1 A river in South Wales which flows into the Bristol Channel at Aberthaw.
- 2 A surname from Burmese.
- 1 The melting of ice, snow, or other frozen or congealed matter; the transformation of ice or the like into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost
- 2 a relaxation or slackening of tensions or reserve; becoming less hostile wordnet
- 3 a period of weather warm enough to melt that which is frozen
"raging floods pursue their hasty thaw; / Our thaw was mild , the cold not chased away"
- 4 warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt wordnet
- 5 A period of relaxation, of reduced reserve, tension, or hostility or of increased friendliness or understanding. figuratively
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- 6 the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid wordnet
- 1 To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen. intransitive
"the ice thaws"
- 2 become or cause to become soft or liquid wordnet
- 3 To become sufficiently warm to melt ice and snow, said in reference to the weather. impersonal, intransitive
"It's beginning to thaw."
- 4 To grow gentle or genial. figuratively, intransitive
"Her anger has thawed."
- 5 To gradually cause frozen things (such as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve. transitive
"Mor. Miſlike me not for my complexion, / The ſhadowed liuerie of the burniſht ſunne, / To whom I am a neighbour,and neere bred. / Bring me the faireſt creature North-ward borne, / Where Phœbus fire ſcarce thawes the yſicles, / And let vs make inciſion for your loue, / To proue whoſe blood is reddeſt,his or mine."
Etymology
From Middle English thowen, thawen, from Old English þawian, *þāwan (“to thaw”), from Proto-West Germanic *þauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *þawjaną (“to thaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to melt”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian daie, dauje (“to thaw”), West Frisian teie (“to thaw”), Dutch dooien (“to thaw”), German Low German deien (“to thaw”), German tauen (“to thaw”), Swedish töa (“to thaw”), Icelandic þeyja (“to thaw”).
From Middle English thowen, thawen, from Old English þawian, *þāwan (“to thaw”), from Proto-West Germanic *þauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *þawjaną (“to thaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to melt”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian daie, dauje (“to thaw”), West Frisian teie (“to thaw”), Dutch dooien (“to thaw”), German Low German deien (“to thaw”), German tauen (“to thaw”), Swedish töa (“to thaw”), Icelandic þeyja (“to thaw”).
Anglicized from Welsh Ddawan, ddaw.
Borrowed from Burmese သော် (sau). It is also an English and Scottish surname, but without a certain origin.
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