I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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That night it freezes hard and next morning after a brief breakfast we thaw out the boat and set off again.
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And his new overcoat was thawed out and limp now.
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He was brought in touch with reality, he was thawed out .
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The veal in the clingfilm had now thawed out so he consigned it to the wastebasket.
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What if she thawed out and is planning to garrotte Matthew Kelly with one of his own sparkly waistcoats?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As the Cold War thawed, defense budgets shrank.
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Put the chicken in the microwave to thaw it out.
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The lake is frozen all winter, but it usually thaws in March.
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The snow had started to thaw , and there was a faint scent of spring in the air.
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When the lakes start to thaw , it's dangerous to go skating.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He rubbed one in his hands to thaw it for me and barked at Nina, the black-haired girl.
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I suggest wiring them up and trailing them overboard to thaw .
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It made her thaw a fraction towards him, in spite of herself.
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That night it freezes hard and next morning after a brief breakfast we thaw out the boat and set off again.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
spring
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The tops of the wedges are often covered with gravel and may be awash during the spring thaw .
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Freezing at night, baking during the day, ice storms after spring thaw , all create a rugged habitat.
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Usually dry throughout winter, they start with the onset of spring thaw .
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It remained in place for a record seventy-eight days until April 11, when the spring thaw finally caused its breakup.
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Surprisingly, before the spring thaw finally sets in, April can provide excellent rock climbing.
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Vlasov's army was once again surrounded between Novgorod and Gruzino; and the spring thaw turned the forest into a swamp.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the thaw in East-West tensions
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the spring thaw
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Brief thaws came often, but Provincetown seemed, in general, arctic and bereft.
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For a while, until the thaw or rain, these muddy tracks will be fossilised and time will stand still.
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Freezing at night, baking during the day, ice storms after spring thaw , all create a rugged habitat.
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In many places the thaw was complete, and he trudged through mud.
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Perhaps it was to exploit this slight sign of thaw that Eisenhower immediately afterwards invited Khrushchev to the United States.
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Rocks splintered by centuries of cyclic thaws crumbled under my boots.
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Yet the outburst of modernism which occurred in the thaw years, did not spring from a total void.