melt

[ melt ]

/ mɛlt /

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verb (used without object), melt·ed, melt·ed or mol·ten, melt·ing.

to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.

to become liquid; dissolve: Let the cough drop melt in your mouth.

to pass, dwindle, or fade gradually (often followed by away): His fortune slowly melted away.

to pass, change, or blend gradually (often followed by into): Night melted into day.

to become softened in feeling by pity, sympathy, love, or the like: The tyrant's heart would not melt.

Obsolete. to be subdued or overwhelmed by sorrow, dismay, etc.

verb (used with object), melt·ed, melt·ed or mol·ten, melt·ing.

to reduce to a liquid state by warmth or heat; fuse: Fire melts ice.

to cause to pass away or fade.

to cause to pass, change, or blend gradually.

to soften in feeling, as a person or the heart.

noun

the act or process of melting; state of being melted.

something that is melted.

a quantity melted at one time.

a sandwich or other dish topped with melted cheese: a tuna melt.

Origin of melt

before 900; Middle English melten, Old English meltan (intransitive), m(i)elten (transitive) to melt, digest; cognate with Old Norse melta to digest, Greek méldein to melt

SYNONYMS FOR melt

1 Melt, dissolve, fuse, thaw imply reducing a solid substance to a liquid state. To melt is to bring a solid to a liquid condition by the agency of heat: to melt butter. Dissolve, though sometimes used interchangeably with melt, applies to a different process, depending upon the fact that certain solids, placed in certain liquids, distribute their particles throughout the liquids: A greater number of solids can be dissolved in water and in alcohol than in any other liquids. To fuse is to subject a solid (usually a metal) to a very high temperature; it applies especially to melting or blending metals together: Bell metal is made by fusing copper and tin. To thaw is to restore a frozen substance to its normal (liquid, semiliquid, or more soft and pliable) state by raising its temperature above the freezing point: Sunshine will thaw ice in a lake.

4 dwindle.

10 gentle, mollify, relax.

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OTHER WORDS FROM melt

melt·a·ble, adjective melt·a·bil·i·ty, noun melt·ing·ly, adverb melt·ing·ness, noun

non·melt·a·ble, adjective non·melt·ing, adjective un·melt·a·ble, adjective un·melt·ed, adjective un·melt·ing, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH melt

evanescence evaporation liquefaction melting thawing transpiration vaporization

Words nearby melt

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Example sentences from the Web for melting

Alastair Sim had jowls like melting candle wax, a snarl like a cornered cat and eyes cold with contempt.

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Idris Elba has, in the eyes of many, reached the melting point.

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It's often said that America is a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities.

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The glaciers are melting because snowfall is decreasing and temperatures are rising—bad news for wolverines.

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He would then jam a dozen bottles of champagne into the melting blue iceberg and invite everybody in his phone book.

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But I was still under the influence of the girl's melting gaze, and I saw that this was where I started in as a knight-errant.

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Observe, then, that Davy made his epochal experiment of melting ice by friction when he was a youth of twenty.

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The warm weather had softened the ice, and the melting of much snow had caused the river to rise.

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The most definite property that can be made use of for this purpose is the melting point.

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Arriving at the snow line, we found grass and even flowers growing and blooming in soil moistened by the melting snow.

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British Dictionary definitions for melting

melt

/ (mɛlt) /

verb melts, melting, melted, melted or molten (ˈməʊltən)

to liquefy (a solid) or (of a solid) to become liquefied, as a result of the action of heat

to become or make liquid; dissolve cakes that melt in the mouth

(often foll by away) to disappear; fade

(foll by down) to melt (metal scrap) for reuse

(often foll by into) to blend or cause to blend gradually

to make or become emotional or sentimental; soften

noun

the act or process of melting

something melted or an amount melted

Derived forms of melt

meltable, adjective meltability, noun melter, noun meltingly, adverb

meltingness, noun

Word Origin for melt

Old English meltan to digest; related to Old Norse melta to malt (beer), digest, Greek meldein to melt

Scientific definitions for melting

melt

[ mĕlt ]

To change from a solid to a liquid state by heating or being heated with sufficient energy at the melting point. See also heat of fusion.

Idioms and Phrases with melting

melt

In addition to the idiom beginning with melt

melt in one's mouth

also see:

butter wouldn't melt

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melt

verb (used without object), melt·ed, melt·ed or mol·ten, melt·ing.

verb (used with object), melt·ed, melt·ed or mol·ten, melt·ing.

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verb melts, melting, melted, melted or molten (ˈməʊltən)

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melt

verb (used without object), melt·ed, melt·ed or mol·ten, melt·ing.

verb (used with object), melt·ed, melt·ed or mol·ten, melt·ing.

noun

Origin of melt

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verb melts, melting, melted, melted or molten (ˈməʊltən)

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