Thawed
[θɔ:d]
Definition
(adj.) no longer frozen; 'the thawed ground was muddy' .
(adj.) no longer frozen solid; 'the thawed ice was treacherous' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Thaw
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Examples
- This reflection thawed my congealing blood, and again the tide of life and love flowed impetuously onward, again to ebb as my busy thoughts changed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The room must be made warm, the body must be thawed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- From the portico, from the eaves, from the parapet, from every ledge and post and pillar, drips the thawed snow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- No soft sense of domestic intimacy ever opened our hearts, or thawed our language and made it flow easy and limpid. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Already the snow had begun to be foot-thawed again about the door. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Reflects the new Veneering crest, in gold and eke in silver, frosted and also thawed, a camel of all work. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The distance between us shrank, and the light hoar-frost thawed insensibly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The blaze there has thawed all the snow from your cloak; by the same token, it has streamed on to my floor, and made it like a trampled street. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Graham would not long bear it; he brought with him a generous influence that soon thawed the timid, self-imposed restriction. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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