verb
- Become or cause to become soft or liquid.
- usage: "The sun melted the ice"; "the ice thawed"; "the ice cream melted"; "The heat melted the wax"; "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase"; "dethaw the meat"
adjective
- No longer frozen solid.
- usage: "the thawed ice was treacherous"
- No longer frozen.
- usage: "the thawed ground was muddy"
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