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melt
1[ melt ]
verb (used without object)
- to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
- to become liquid; dissolve:
Let the cough drop melt in your mouth.
- to pass, dwindle, or fade gradually (often followed by away ):
His fortune slowly melted away.
- to pass, change, or blend gradually (often followed by into ):
Night melted into day.
Synonyms:
- to become softened in feeling by pity, sympathy, love, or the like:
The tyrant's heart would not melt.
- Obsolete. to be subdued or overwhelmed by sorrow, dismay, etc.
verb (used with object)
- to reduce to a liquid state by warmth or heat; fuse:
Fire melts ice.
- to cause to pass away or fade.
- to cause to pass, change, or blend gradually.
- to soften in feeling, as a person or the heart.
Synonyms: , , ,
noun
- the act or process of melting; state of being melted.
- something that is melted.
- a quantity melted at one time.
- a sandwich or other dish topped with cheese and heated through until the cheese melts:
a tuna melt.
melt
2[ melt ]
noun
- the spleen, especially that of a cow, pig, etc.
melt
/ ɛ /
verb
- to liquefy (a solid) or (of a solid) to become liquefied, as a result of the action of heat
- to become or make liquid; dissolve
cakes that melt in the mouth
- often foll by away to disappear; fade
- foll by down to melt (metal scrap) for reuse
- often foll by into to blend or cause to blend gradually
- to make or become emotional or sentimental; soften
noun
- the act or process of melting
- something melted or an amount melted
melt
/ ĕ /
- To change from a solid to a liquid state by heating or being heated with sufficient energy at the melting point.
- See also heat of fusion
Derived Forms
- ˈٱ, noun
- ˈپԲԱ, noun
- ˈٲ, adjective
- ˈپԲ, adverb
- ˌٲˈٲ, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- ·· adjective
- ····ٲ [mel-t, uh, -, bil, -i-tee], noun
- ·Բ· adverb
- ·Բ·Ա noun
- non··· adjective
- ԴDz··Բ adjective
- un··· adjective
- ܲ·· adjective
- ܲ··Բ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of melt1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of melt1
Idioms and Phrases
In addition to the idiom beginning with melt , also see butter wouldn't melt .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
But cornmeal is also thirsty, and my first attempt — which leaned on a mixture of olive oil, melted butter and a single egg for moisture — was dry, almost crumbly.
After that date, an increasing amount begins to melt.
The adhesive holding together her wood floors melted and warped.
Sze said she had one client in the Palisades who is asking his contractors to search through the remains of his home for precious metals, which would still retain some value, even if melted.
“You could still see the shell of the oven, the weight rack my husband had in the garage. But everything else was just melted or destroyed.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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