Crossword-Solution: THAW
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Thaw | v. i. | To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; -- said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws. |
| Thaw | v. i. | To become so warm as to melt ice and snow; -- said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally. |
| Thaw | v. i. | Fig.: To grow gentle or genial. |
| Thaw | v. t. | To cause (frozen things, as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve. |
| Thaw | n. | The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost; also, a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is congealed. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| THAW | anagram | HAWT, WHAT |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with THAW (5)
When the thaw set in, he led them all out to feed, and the Wild Goats scampered away as fast as they could to the mountains.
Both windows were open, and the fire in the grate was low, for the day was one of those false springs that sometimes blow into New York from the sea in the middle of winter, soft, warm, with a persuasive salty moisture in the air and a relaxing thaw under foot.
The ground covered with snow, and the atmosphere in that unsettled state between frost and thaw, which is of all others the most unfriendly for exercise, every morning beginning in rain or snow, and every evening setting in to freeze, she was for many days a most honourable prisoner.
XIII The week following Christmas brought in a thaw, and by New Year’s Day all the world about us was a broth of grey slush, and the guttered slope between the windmill and the barn was running black water.
Then I rose and I kicked off the husky dogs that were nosing round about, And I lit a roaring fire in the stove, and I started to thaw Bill out.
Quotes with THAW (3)
Did you ever, when you were little, endure your parents’ warnings, then wait for them to leave the room, pry loose protective covers and consider inserting some metal object into an electrical outlet? Did you wonder if for once you might light up the room? When you were big enough to cross the street on your own, did you ever wait for a signal, hear the frenzied approach of a fire truck and feel like stepping out in front of it? Did you wonder just how far that rocket ride mi…
And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come — it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.
Festivals and fasts are unhinged, traveling backward at a rate of ten days per year, attached to no season. Even Laylat ul Qadr, the holiest night in Ramadan, drifts--its precise date is unknown. The iconclasm laid down by Muhammed was absolute: you must resist attachment not only to painted images, but to natural ones. Ramadan, Muharram, the Eids; you associate no religious event with the tang of snow in the air, or spring thaw, or the advent of summer. God permeates these t…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 525 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).