thaw out
— phrasal verb with thaw /θɔː/
/θɑː/ verb Definition
› If you thaw out, you gradually get warm again after being very cold: I'm only just beginning to thaw out after taking the dogs out this morning.Warm
(Definition of thaw out from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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