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thawed

thawed

1.0
No longer frozen because it has warmed up
  • adjective
  • /θɔd/
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  • The vegetables were nicely thawed, making them perfect for the stir-fry.

Examples

  • After being left out overnight, the meat was completely thawed and ready to marinate.

  • They come back and all they found that it tasted terrible because it had thawed and frozen, thawed and frozen, thawed and frozen.

  • I've got a cart full of thawed out soil right here.

  • We got some free thawed frozen Arida home fries.

  • You're going to find out that thawed out chicken that your momma told you to pull out hours ago.

  • We are growing embryos in a dish and a frozen thawed embryo transfer.

  • I've got this little length of hose that stays in here so it stays thawed out and we have to wheel it out to the water source.

  • The chef recommended using thawed chicken for the recipe to ensure even cooking.

Synonyms

unfrozen
vsthawed
4 1.5

Still liquid and not hard like ice

says it was frozen before and has become liquid now

Antonyms

frozen
1 1.0

Covered with ice because of very cold weather

How Melted

melted
1.0
thawed
1.0
slushy
  • UK
4 2.0
frozen
1 1.0

Surface Forms

thawed positive

Morphology

thawed = thaw (transparent) = thaw + ed

Regular past-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'thaw'; meaning 'having become unfrozen' is directly derived.

Etymology

Thawed comes from the old English verb thaw, which meant 'to melt' or 'become warm'. So, when something is thawed it is no longer frozen and has 'become unfrozen'.