melt

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[ melt ]
/ mɛlt /

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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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.

OTHER WORDS FROM melt

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH melt

evanescence evaporation liquefaction melting thawing transpiration vaporization

Definition for melt (2 of 2)

melt 2
[ melt ]
/ mɛlt /

noun

the spleen, especially that of a cow, pig, etc.
Also milt.

Origin of melt

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First recorded in 1575–85; variant of milt

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British Dictionary definitions for melt

melt
/ (mɛlt) /

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

noun

the act or process of melting
something melted or an amount melted

Derived forms of melt

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 melt

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 melt

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