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0 to (cause to) change from a solid, frozen state to a liquid or soft one, because of an increase in temperature:
- Allow the meat to thaw completely before cooking it.
- The sun came out and thawed the ice.
- It's beginning to thaw (= the weather is warm enough for snow and ice to melt).
1 to become friendlier or more relaxed:
- The report shows that relations between the two enemies may be thawing.
2 an increase in friendliness:
- There are signs of a thaw in relations between the two countries.
3 a period of warmer weather when snow and ice begin to melt:
- There was an early thaw this year.
4 to cause something frozen and hard to become warmer and often softer or liquid:
- Remove the meat from the freezer and let it thaw.
- It may take a couple of hours to thaw out.
5 a period of warmer weather when snow and ice begin to melt:
- With the spring thaw, the rivers and lakes swelled.
- It was hoped that the agreement to exchange athletes would lead to a thaw in relations between the two countries.

After thawing, the samples were assayed in duplicate analyses using a standard time-resolved fluorescence immunoassay.
Aliquots of the blood are thawed and used as required.
In this study, the tolerance of algae and cyanobacteria to freezing, thawing and freezing-drying stresses was evaluated by short-term (days to months) low-temperature experiments.
Samples were thawed slowly and cut up for examination.
The column was subjected to several cycles of top-down freezing and thawing to simulate an active layer.
The membranes used in a feeding device can therefore be prepared in advance, frozen and only thawed as needed.
A fresh stock of virus was thawed immediately prior to each injection.
Before use, they were thawed, added to the medium and subjected to sonication.