thawing

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From thaw + -ing.

There was no thawing and freezing again. — Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863, George Byron Merrick
“Fundamentally standeth everything still”—: but CONTRARY thereto, preacheth the thawing wind! — Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The wind was high, but the sun bright, and the snow thawing. — The Life of Kit Carson: Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel U.S.A., Edward Sylvester Ellis

thaw, melt, melting

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