Thaw

(noun.) a relaxation or slackening of tensions or reserve; becoming less hostile; 'the thaw between the United States and Russia has led to increased cooperation in world affairs'.

(noun.) warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt; 'they welcomed the spring thaw'.

(noun.) 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'.

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• The moon was set, and it was very dark; Bessie carried a lantern, whose light glanced on wet steps and gravel road sodden by a recent thaw. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Then do the frozen Dedlocks thaw. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The Countess allowed herself to thaw under the influence of her husband's quaint comparison. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• A weakness ran over his body, a terrible relaxing, a thaw, a decay of strength. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She wasted like any snow-wreath in thaw; she faded like any flower in drought. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She has been very farouche with me for a long time; and is only just beginning to thaw a little from her Zenobia ways. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• 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. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The room must be made warm, the body must be thawed. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• From the portico, from the eaves, from the parapet, from every ledge and post and pillar, drips the thawed snow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• No soft sense of domestic intimacy ever opened our hearts, or thawed our language and made it flow easy and limpid. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Already the snow had begun to be foot-thawed again about the door. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Reflects the new Veneering crest, in gold and eke in silver, frosted and also thawed, a camel of all work. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The distance between us shrank, and the light hoar-frost thawed insensibly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Further to the north is the great plain, still steadily thawing and drying. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was midwinter and during the siege we had rain and snow, thawing and freezing alternately. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Winter wheat, you are aware, in the freezing and thawing season, is apt to heave out. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• 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. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Alternate frosts and thaws succeeding to floods, rendered the country impassable. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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