Thawing
[θɔːɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thaw
Checked by Elton
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Melting, dissolving, liquefaction.
Typist: Paul
Examples
- Further to the north is the great plain, still steadily thawing and drying. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was midwinter and during the siege we had rain and snow, thawing and freezing alternately. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- 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. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Winter wheat, you are aware, in the freezing and thawing season, is apt to heave out. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is desirable to bury the seed a uniform and proper depth and to throw over the young plant such an amount of soil that it shall not heave with the freezing and thawing. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Checker: Otis