Crossword clues for thawing
thawing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
thaw \thaw\ (th[add]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Thawed (th[add]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Thawing.] [AS. [thorn][=a]wian, [thorn][=a]wan; akin to D. dovijen, G. tauen, thauen (cf. also verdauen to digest, OHG. douwen, firdouwen), Icel. [thorn]eyja, Sw. t["o]a, Dan. t["o]e, and perhaps to Gr. th`kein to melt. [root]56.]
Wiktionary
n. The process by which something thaws. vb. (present participle of thaw English)
WordNet
n. 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" [syn: thaw, melt, melting]
warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt; "they welcomed the spring thaw" [syn: thaw, warming]
Usage examples of "thawing".
I agree that there is going to be no thawing of this thing if there is the remotest chance of its revival.
From my observations while it was thawing out, and the bits of tissue I cut and hardened then, I think it was native to a hotter planet than Earth.
We were again upon the melancholy road by which we had come, tearing up the miry sleet and thawing snow as if they were torn up by a waterwheel.
The floes were small and broken - the thawing fringe broken from the pack ice farther south and flung north-eastward by the storm.
All these days and weeks, the Sea had been thawing, far down in the depths.
The Sea was thawing from beneath as the solar heat seeped through the hull of Rama.
The Yabban government was informed as soon as the thawing was well enough along that stopping it would have been a moot point.
Strong winds and ice, which had formed on branches during an alternate freezing and thawing earlier in the season, had brought down several trees.
The Great Moot of the Cymrian Council had once been a glacial lake, formed by the freezing and thawing of ice on the mountain faces of the Teeth when they were young.
Each mild spell and subsequent thawing pushed the Splinter one step closer to collapse.
The speck of frozen urine currently thawing against his thigh was reminder enough of that.
And at last he felt the coldness thawing in him and believed, with a spurt of relief, that he was winning.
Right now, though, it was only warm enough to have an atmosphere and very slight and partial thawings in direct sunlight, in sheltered spots, at midday.