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[melt] 
verb, melt⋅ed, melt⋅ed or mol⋅ten, melt⋅ing, noun –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
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.
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 (mělt) v. melt·ed, melt·ing, melts v. intr.
[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. |
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