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Nouns
(n)thaw, melt, thawing, meltingthe process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid“the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster”,
“the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours” (n)thaw, thawing, warmingwarm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt“they welcomed the spring thaw”