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mol⋅ten

  [mohl-tn]
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–verb
1. a pp. of melt.
–adjective
2. liquefied by heat; in a state of fusion; melted: molten lead.
3. produced by melting and casting: a molten image.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME; old ptp. of melt 1

Related forms:
mol⋅ten⋅ly, adverb
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melt

1  [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

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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mol·ten   (mōl'tən)   
v.   Archaic
A past participle of melt.
adj.  

  1. Made liquid by heat; melted: molten lead.

  2. Made by melting and casting in a mold.

  3. Brilliantly glowing, from or as if from intense heat: "A huge red bed of coals blazed and quivered with molten fury" (Richard Wright).

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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.

molten 
c.1290, archaic pp. of O.E. meltian, a class III strong verb (see melt).
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