THAWED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thawed mean? 

• THAWED (adjective)
  The adjective THAWED has 2 senses:

1. no longer frozen solid

2. no longer frozen

  Familiarity information: THAWED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THAWED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

No longer frozen solid

Context example:

the thawed ice was treacherous

Similar:

liquid; liquified; melted (changed from a solid to a liquid state)

Sense 2

Meaning:

No longer frozen

Context example:

the thawed ground was muddy

Similar:

unfrozen (not frozen)

 Context examples 

The study also revealed another major factor of this process: when the lakes drain, previously thawed organic-rich lake sediments refreeze.

(Certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they release, NSF)

The embryos are frozen and can later be thawed and placed in a woman’s uterus.

(Embryo cryopreservation, NCI Dictionary)

The blaze there has thawed all the snow from your cloak; by the same token, it has streamed on to my floor, and made it like a trampled street.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When the fire had burned for an hour, several inches of dirt had thawed.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A few sticks of driftwood furnished them with a fire that thawed down through the ice and left them to eat supper in the dark.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It was a full-grown mosquito, one that had lain frozen in a dry log all winter and that had now been thawed out by the sun.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The main tissue block remains unchanged and is not chemically treated or thawed, which allows for extraction and analysis of high quality DNA, RNA, or protein.

(Laser Cryo Enrichment, NCI Thesaurus)

The eggs are thawed and fertilized in the laboratory to make embryos that can be placed in a woman’s uterus.

(Egg cryopreservation, NCI Dictionary)

It was not until we had consumed some hot tea at the station and taken our places in the Kentish train that we were sufficiently thawed, he to speak and I to listen.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the winter, when the earth is frozen hard, they are obliged to stay below and cannot work their way through; but now, when the sun has thawed and warmed the earth, they break through it, and come out to pry and steal; and what once gets into their hands, and in their caves, does not easily see daylight again.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)