Synonyms of the word

thaw

• v. (intransitive) To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen.
• v. (intransitive) To become so warm as to melt ice and snow — said in reference to the weather, and used…
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To grow gentle or genial.
• v. (transitive) To gradually cause frozen things (such as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.
• n. The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state…
• n. a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is frozen.

dethaw

• v. (nonstandard) To thaw; unthaw; unfreeze.

dissolve

• v. (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.
• v. (transitive) To destroy, make disappear.
• v. (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.
• v. (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.
• v. (chemistry, transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
• v. (chemistry, intransitive) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
• v. (transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
• v. (transitive) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
• v. (law, transitive) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
• v. (cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the…
• v. (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.
• v. (obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
• v. To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
• n. (cinematography) A film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next.

flux

• n. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
• n. A state of ongoing change.
• n. A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
• n. (physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity) through a given surface, specifically…
• n. (archaic) A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
• n. (archaic) Diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.
• n. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
• v. To use flux.
• v. To melt.
• v. To flow as a liquid.
• adj. (uncommon) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.

heating

• n. A system that raises the temperature of a room or building. Compare heater.
• n. The act of making something hot.
• adj. Causing heat.
• v. present participle of heat.

liquefy

• v. (transitive) To make into a liquid.
• v. (intransitive) To become liquid.

liquify

• v. Alternative form of liquefy.

loosening

• v. present participle of loosen.
• n. The act of making something looser.

melt

• n. Molten material, the product of melting.
• n. The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
• n. The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
• n. A melt sandwich.
• n. A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
• n. (Britain, slang) an idiot.
• v. (ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.

melting

• v. present participle of melt.
• adj. Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
• adj. Given over to strong emotion; tender; aroused; emotional, tearful.
• n. The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.

relaxation

• n. The act of relaxing or the state of being relaxed; the opposite of stress or tension; the aim of recreation…
• n. A diminution of tone, tension, or firmness; specifically in pathology: a looseness; a diminution of the…
• n. Remission or abatement of rigor.
• n. Remission of attention or application.
• n. Unbending; recreation; a state or occupation intended to give mental or bodily relief after effort.
• n. (physics) The transition of an atom or molecule from a higher energy level to a lower one.
• n. (music) The release following musical tension.

slackening

• v. present participle of slacken.
• n. The act by which something slackens; loss of speed, tautness, etc.

thawing

• v. present participle of thaw.
• n. The process by which something thaws.

unfreeze

• v. (transitive) To defrost something.
• v. (intransitive) To thaw.
• v. (intransitive) To resume movement.
• v. (transitive, computing) To release from a previously locked or frozen state.

unthaw

• v. To not thaw; to (re-)freeze or remain frozen.
• v. To thaw out, to unfreeze; to become soft (of something which had been frozen).

warming

• v. present participle of warm.
• n. A small rise in temperature.

weather

• n. The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative…
• n. Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
• n. (nautical) The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
• n. (countable, figuratively) A situation.
• n. (obsolete) A storm; a tempest.
• n. (obsolete) A light shower of rain.
• v. To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.
• v. (by extension) To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.
• v. To breakdown, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature,…
• v. (nautical) To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.
• v. (nautical) To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.
• v. (falconry) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.