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melt

1  [melt] verb, melt⋅ed, melt⋅ed or mol⋅ten, melt⋅ing, noun
Use melt in a Sentence
–verb (used without object)
1. to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
2. to become liquid; dissolve: Let the cough drop melt in your mouth.
3. to pass, dwindle, or fade gradually (often fol. by away): His fortune slowly melted away.
4. to pass, change, or blend gradually (often fol. by into): Night melted into day.
5. to become softened in feeling by pity, sympathy, love, or the like: The tyrant's heart would not melt.
6. Obsolete. to be subdued or overwhelmed by sorrow, dismay, etc.
–verb (used with object)
7. to reduce to a liquid state by warmth or heat; fuse: Fire melts ice.
8. to cause to pass away or fade.
9. to cause to pass, change, or blend gradually.
10. to soften in feeling, as a person or the heart.
–noun
11. the act or process of melting; state of being melted.
12. something that is melted.
13. a quantity melted at one time.
14. a sandwich or other dish topped with melted cheese: a tuna melt.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME melten, OE meltan (intrans.), m(i)elten (transit.) to melt, digest; c. ON melta to digest, Gk méldein to melt

Related forms:
melt⋅a⋅ble, adjective
melt⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
melt⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
melt⋅ing⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
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 esp. 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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melt

2  [melt]
–noun
the spleen, esp. that of a cow, pig, etc.
Also, milt.

Origin:
1575–85; var. of milt
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melt   (mělt)   
v.   melt·ed, melt·ing, melts

v.   intr.

  1. To be changed from a solid to a liquid state especially by the application of heat.

  2. To dissolve: Sugar melts in water.

  3. To disappear or vanish gradually as if by dissolving: The crowd melted away after the rally.

  4. To pass or merge imperceptibly into something else: Sea melted into sky along the horizon.

  5. To become softened in feeling: Our hearts melted at the child's tears.

  6. Obsolete To be overcome or crushed, as by grief, dismay, or fear.

v.   tr.

  1. To change (a solid) to a liquid state especially by the application of heat.

  2. To dissolve: The tide melted our sand castle away.

  3. To cause to disappear gradually; disperse.

  4. To cause (units) to blend: "Here individuals of all races are melted into a new race of men" (Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur).

  5. To soften (someone's feelings); make gentle or tender.

n.  

  1. A melted solid; a fused mass.

  2. The state of being melted.

    1. The act or operation of melting.

    2. The quantity melted at a single operation or in one period.

  4. A usually open sandwich topped with melted cheese: a tuna melt.


[Middle English melten, from Old English meltan; see mel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
melt'a·bil'i·ty n., melt'a·ble adj., melt'er n., melt'ing·ly adv., melt'y adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

melt 
O.E. meltan "become liquid" (class III strong verb; past tense mealt, pp. molten), from P.Gmc. *meltanan; fused with O.E. gemæltan (Anglian), gemyltan (W.Saxon) "make liquid," from P.Gmc. *gamaltijanan (cf. O.N. melta "to digest"), both from PIE *meld- "softness" (cf. Gk. meldein "to melt," L. mollis "soft, mild"). Meltdown is from 1965 in reference to a nuclear reactor; metaphoric extension since early 1980s.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

melt

In addition to the idiom beginning with melt, also see butter wouldn't melt.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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