Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun thawing

2 senses of thawing

Sense 1
thaw, melt, thawing, melting -- (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")
       => heating, warming -- (the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature)
       => phase change, phase transition, state change, physical change -- (a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition)

Sense 2
thaw, thawing, warming -- (warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt; "they welcomed the spring thaw")
       => weather, weather condition, conditions, atmospheric condition -- (the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation; "they were hoping for good weather"; "every day we have weather conditions and yesterday was no exception"; "the conditions were too rainy for playing in the snow")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb thaw

1 sense of thaw

Sense 1
dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw, dethaw, melt -- (become or cause to become soft or liquid; "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")
       => liquefy, flux, liquify -- (become liquid or fluid when heated; "the frozen fat liquefied")