thaw
verb (used without object)
to pass or change from a frozen to a liquid or semiliquid state; melt.
had thawed
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past perfectof thaw.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Things looked brighter then, less than a decade after the Iron Curtain collapsed and relations between Moscow and the West had thawed.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
It was June 1961 and relations between the west and the Soviet Union had thawed enough to allow the Kirov to perform in Paris.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2018
“It had thawed, everything was covered in mould, it was pretty disgusting, and yeah, everything had been lost.”
From Nature ● Jan. 29, 2017
Then coming down, his lips had thawed into a smile.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2015
Gene Johnson, the civilian scientist, had thawed a little bit of Nurse Mayinga’s frozen blood and had injected it into the monkeys.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
