Usually means: Melting of ice or snow.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. thaw: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. thaw: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. thaw: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. thaw: Collins English Dictionary
  5. thaw: Vocabulary.com
  6. Thaw, thaw: Wordnik
  7. thaw, the thaw: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Thaw, thaw: Wiktionary
  9. thaw: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. thaw: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. thaw: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. thaw, the thaw: Dictionary.com
  13. thaw (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. thaw: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. THAW, Thaw (Foetus album), Thaw (weather), Thaw, The Thaw (Ehrenburg novel), The Thaw (TV series), The Thaw (novel), The Thaw (novelette), The Thaw: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Thaw: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. thaw: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. thaw: Rhymezone
  19. thaw: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. thaw: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. thaw: Free Dictionary
  22. thaw: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. thaw: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. thaw: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. thaw: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Thaw (weather), thaw: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. THAW: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. thaw: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Thaw, Thaw: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen
verb:  (intransitive) To become sufficiently warm to melt ice and snow — said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To grow gentle or genial.
verb:  (transitive) To gradually cause frozen things (such as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.
noun:  The melting of ice, snow, or other frozen or congealed matter; the transformation of ice or the like into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost
noun:  a period of weather warm enough to melt that which is frozen
noun:  (figuratively) A period of relaxation, of reduced reserve, tension, or hostility or of increased friendliness or understanding.
noun:  A river in South Wales which flows into the Bristol Channel at Aberthaw.
noun:  A surname from Burmese.

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