Thaw

Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Thaw

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the melting of ice or snow, also “spell of weather causing this,” c. 1400, from thaw (verb). Figurative sense is from 1590s; specifically “relaxation of political harshness or hostility” from 1950, an image from the “Cold War.”