thaw

1. (intransitive) To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen.Examples: "the ice thaws"intransitive

2. (impersonal, intransitive) To become sufficiently warm to melt ice and snow, said in reference to the weather.Examples: "It's beginning to thaw."impersonalintransitive

3. (intransitive, figuratively) To grow gentle or genial.Examples: "Her anger has thawed."; "The atmosphere at the meeting never really thawed."figurativelyintransitive

4. (transitive) To gradually cause frozen things (such as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.Examples: "Mor. Miſlike me not for my complexion, / The ſhadowed liuerie of the burniſht ſunne, / To whom I am a neighbour,and neere bred. / Bring me the faireſt creature North-ward borne, / Where Phœbus fire ſcarce thawes the yſicles, / And let vs make inciſion for your loue, / To proue whoſe blood is reddeſt,his or mine."; "The frame of burnish'd steel, that cast a glare / From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air."transitive