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
Dale arrived, his sweet kind heart all unthawed, and truly when he left us for Harmony I think the very last thin flake of Scotch ice had melted from him.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
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
