thawed
Warmed up enough
Thawed describes something frozen that has warmed enough to become soft or liquid again.
Meat thawed overnight in the refrigerator is ready to cook; a thawed pipe can flow water again.
The word extends to emotional states: relations between estranged family members may have thawed after years of silence.
The thawed chicken sat in a pool of its own juices.
Their thawed friendship picked up where it left off.
Brought above freezing
- unfrozenNo longer solid
- liquefiedConverted to fluid state
- softenedMade less severe
- warmedIncreased in temperature
room-temperature · deiced · runny · watery · mushy · soggy · slushy · dripping
Brought above freezing
- room-temperatureStandard indoor conditions
- temperedStrengthened through heat treatment
- restedHaving recovered energy
- safeFree from peril
refrigerated · overnight · microwave · cold-water · countertop · marinated · prepped
defrosted
Brought above freezing
warmed · room-temperature · deiced · runny · watery · mushy · soggy · slushy · dripping · pooling
defrosted
Brought above freezing
- room-temperatureStandard indoor conditions
- temperedStrengthened through heat treatment
- restedHaving recovered energy
safe · refrigerated · overnight · microwave · cold-water · countertop · marinated · prepped
reconciled
Restored to harmony
cordial · relaxed · eased · mellowed · receptive · approachable · amicable · diplomatic · détente · rapprochement
springtime
Season following winter
- breakupRomantic relationship's termination
- ice-outLake ice disappearance
- snowmeltLiquefied winter precipitation
freshet · runoff · warming · temperate · equinox · solstice · chinook · ice-free · permafrost · glacial
- liquid statesmelted, molten, liquefied gas, fluid, flowing
- path conditionsmuddy, rocky, icy, slippery, wet
- Trail Conditionswet, dry, muddy, icy, slippery
- preservation statespreserved, canned, frozen, dried, pickled
- tissue stateshealthy, diseased, inflamed, necrotic, viable
- temperaturehot, cold, warm, cool, freezing
- thaw outUnfreeze after being cold
- spring thawWarming that melts winter's ice
- thawing out
- thaw cycle
- January thawTemporary midwinter temperature rise
- summer thaw
thaw, thaws, thawing, unthaw, unthawed, dethaw, dethawing, dethawed