Past tense of thaw; melted from a frozen state or became less cold and rigid.
From Old English thawian, related to Dutch dooien and German tauen, all from Proto-Germanic thawōną. The word originally meant to melt ice or snow, later extended to mean warming relations or attitudes.
Thawed carries beautiful metaphorical weight beyond its literal meaning of ice melting - we speak of thawed relationships, thawed tensions, and hearts that have thawed, suggesting that coldness and warmth exist on both physical and emotional planes in human language.
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