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.
n.
A melted solid; a fused mass.
The state of being melted.
The act or operation of melting.
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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