thaw
verb (used without object)
to pass or change from a frozen to a liquid or semiliquid state; melt.
unthawed
-
a word derived from
thaw.
Example Sentences
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Whether doses are “extra” or “leftover,” these situations require providers to make quick decisions about what to do with them; unthawed doses are only good for a few hours at room temperature.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2021
My lips and cheeks were frozen, unthawed by the sweat running down the sides of my nose.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
He was like a man who had grown frozen with horror once and had never come completely unthawed.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
When the winter comes on, and the sea tries to freeze over, the currents and the tides, and the unthawed blocks of ice that have been left from the last winter, cause a terrible disturbance.
From The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 56, December 2, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Julia Truitt Bishop
He was a peasant gambolling indecorously in the valley, and the pure, cold, white, unthawed summit of the Matterhorn could not but frown on him.
From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry
