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Audio Help [melt] Pronunciation Key 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

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—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 Audio Help   (mělt) Pronunciation Key
v.   melt·ed, melt·ing, melts

v.   intr.

To be changed from a solid to a liquid state especially by the application of heat.
To dissolve: Sugar melts in water.
To disappear or vanish gradually as if by dissolving: The crowd melted away after the rally.
To pass or merge imperceptibly into something else: Sea melted into sky along the horizon.
To become softened in feeling: Our hearts melted at the child's tears.
Obsolete To be overcome or crushed, as by grief, dismay, or fear.

v. tr.

To change (a solid) to a liquid state especially by the application of heat.
To dissolve: The tide melted our sand castle away.
To cause to disappear gradually; disperse.
To cause (units) to blend: "Here individuals of all races are melted into a new race of men" (Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur).
To soften (someone's feelings); make gentle or tender.

A melted solid; a fused mass.
The state of being melted.
1. The act or operation of melting.
2. The quantity melted at a single operation or in one period.
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.

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