Read full poem →And grass begins in freshening hues to shoot,
When thawing dirt to shoes of ploughmen clings,
And silk-haired moles get liberty to root,
Dictionary Entry
To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen
In a Sentence
“the ice thaws”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. thawingprocess thawingsnow thawingcycles thawing
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Poetry examples for “thawing”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →But she was not the woman whom
I had promised to meet in the thawing brume
On that harbour-bridge; nor was I he of her tryst.
Read full poem →Dear fat Stevens, thawing out so beautifully at forty! I was one day
irately damning those who run to London when Stevens caught me up with