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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.
Researchers from UCLouvain go on field missions to collect soils in their maximum thaw period.
Eugene Thaw was a native New-Yorker and an art history student.
Those pools accelerate permafrost thaw beneath the expanding lakes, providing food for microbes that produce the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane.
The embryos were thawed, rehydrated and transferred non-surgically into chosen recipient camels at five or six days after ovulation.
Proceeds from the series 2018 bonds will be used to refinance certain existing indebtedness of Tower Health (Tower, f/k/a Reading Health System) related to THAW, representing the second and final installment of the purchase price payable to Tower; fund a debt service reserve fund; and pay the costs of issuance.
Thaw, a specialist in Burmese kickboxing style lethwei, traded powerful strikes with Sor, a khun Khmer practitioner, in the centre of the cage.
John Thaw appeared in the first Inspector Morse drama behind the wheel of his 1960 Mark II red Jaguar in 1987.
John Thaw and Kevin Whately make their farewell appearance as detective duo Morse and Lewis, John Thaw on set during the in the directors chair in 1987 Morse and Lewis, above, and John Thaw with author Colin Dexter in 1999, below John Thaw, on the right, with co-star Kevin Whatley in 1986
Since 1975, New Yorkers have been able to experience various iterations of the Thaw Collection of drawings in exhibitions at the Morgan Library & Museum.
Recent house fires in Aurora and near Huntley, and a fire Tuesday at the Algonquin Sub Shop were ignited when the owners attempted to thaw frozen pipes using propane or kerosene heaters.
GE Healthcare introduced the first in its VIA Thaw series, the VIA Thaw CB1000 for thawing large volumes of cell therapies cryopreserved in cryo-bags.
High-voltage electric field (HVEF) thawing is an important nonthermal food processing method that has received considerable attention lately [1], and it is predominantly used to thaw food products in academia, including pork [2, 3], tuna fish [4-7], chicken [8], rabbit meat [9], shrimps [10], common carp [11], tofu [12], and apple tissue [13].
Effect of antioxidants on post thaw microscopic, oxidative stress parameter and fertility of boer goat spermatozoa in tris egg yolk glycerol extender.