Related Clues:

• Gets the patient ready
• Makes less tense
• Some races
• Melts
• Finals preceders
• Unfreezes
• Liquefies
• Prepares an oven, as for baking
• Fires up
• Becomes less hostile
• Gets ready for surgery
• Scrubs for surgery, e.g.
• January warm stretches
• Dissolves
• Puts on the back burner, maybe