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melt English

Meaning melt meaning

What does melt mean?
Definitions in simple English

melt Verb

— Melting is a process of an object changing from the solid state to the liquid state without a change in temperature. The ice melted under the hot sun.

melt

— verb (= melt down) reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating melt butter melt down gold The wax melted in the sun — verb (= mellow) become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial With age, he mellowed — verb (= dissolve, thaw, dethaw) become or cause to become soft or liquid The sun melted the ice the ice thawed the ice cream melted The heat melted the wax The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase dethaw the meat — verb lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene — verb (= evaporate) become less intense and fade away gradually her resistance melted under his charm her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance — verb (= fade) become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly The scene begins to fade The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk — noun (= thaw, thawing, melting) the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours

Synonyms melt synonyms

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melt English » English

dissolve thaw fuse liquefy smelt soften melting liquify defrost unthaw unfreeze thawing run melt down cast warm up mellow liquidize flux fade disappear dethaw wear out pine mellow out meld liquate languish fuze fusion evaporate disintegrate dilute digest caramelize caramelise boil wither weakened weaken water very soft usually trickle down thaw out tap sympathize sweat sweal stomach

Topics melt topics

What do people use melt to talk about?
States Quality

Hot
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Snow, ice
Universe, creation World

Solid, liquid, gas
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Smelting
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with metal
Physical actions Arrange

Multiple things moving

Conjugation melt conjugation

How do you conjugate melt?

melt · verb

Examples melt examples

How do I use melt in a sentence?

Simple sentences

When will the snow melt?
I think the snow will melt soon.
These ice cubes will melt soon.
This year, Lake Inari won't melt until the beginning of May.
Salt is used to melt snow.
The temperature on Mercury gets so hot it could melt a tin pan.
This truck puts salt on the road to melt the ice.
Have you ever just let the chocolate melt in your mouth? I swear, it tastes even better this way.
As more sea ice and glaciers melt, the global sea level rises.
If Greenland's ice sheet were to melt completely, sea level all over the world would rise by 5 to 7 meters.
Salt makes ice melt faster.
At what temperature does lead melt?
You will melt.
Snow has begun to melt.
The chocolate is going to melt if you keep it out of the fridge.
The ice-cream will melt, so I put it in the fridge.
Don't let your ice cream melt.
The snow will melt when the sun comes out.
I was hoping the ice cream wouldn't melt so quickly.

Movie subtitles

Hot enough to melt lead.
I could just melt into the chair, like, like a butter lady.
Loyalty, which iron could not break, will not melt in fire, Hagen Tronje!
May all that melt away. May my name perish if Dreyfus be not innocent.
Iron, iron, melt away.
Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
O that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew.
Maybe it would melt that rock you've got for a heart.
Mother and Dad are beginning to melt.
With the engines generating enough heat to melt that path through the crust then sink beneath the surface.
What could melt that much ice? Let's go down and see.
Dr. Chapman, could an airplane melt that much ice?
We'll try to melt it out with thermite bombs.
This ice will melt pretty soon.
You could melt her heart right down to butter. if you'd only turn on the heat.
You must melt his heart.
And our dreams melt like ice-cream.
But we shall have to introduce the colouring matter at an earlier stage. Left shoulder. While the polymer is still in the melt.
Well, simmer down, General, before you melt your medals.
Odd's death! Why doesn't that old usurer ask me to melt down my crown!
But I have to melt them down, find fake reference numbers.
Doesn't burn, doesn't scorch, doesn't melt.
And if that wasn't enough, you'd look at me with those great big cow eyes of yours, point at that phony arm, and I'd melt and go along!
We've got to keep pouring current into it. We have to melt it right down to the ground.
There she is at her little table, playing with her little dishes looking cute and innocent looking like she wouldn't melt butter, she's that cool.
Soon it'll be white-hot then it'll soften and melt.
We got a special little gadget up in Sing Sing that'll just melt him away.
Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.
Oh, she was sweet. Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
Let's melt some ice together.
What makes everybody melt when they hear them?
I mean, that someone might melt or mortgage it.
The gold and platinum I could melt up and sell as bullion, you see. And the rocks, sell them one at a time.
I think the icing on the cake - she melt away.
Oh, my dear, I'm not one who'll melt away.
Everything else seemed to melt away and for me, there was only Lily.
Melt them down.

News and current affairs

PYONGYANG: Is the Cold War's last glacier beginning to melt?
No one can say with certainty that this particular storm was caused by global warming, but almost all experts agree that the effects of polar-ice melt and sea-level rise will make future storms worse.
I have been arguing for four years that our business-cycle problems call for more aggressively expansionary monetary and fiscal policies, and that our biggest problems would quickly melt away were such policies to be adopted.
Not only does it shine, it illumines; it actually begins to melt tyrannies.
Even schoolchildren can recite some projected outcomes: oceans will warm and glaciers will melt, causing sea levels to rise and salt water to inundate low-lying coastal areas.
Payment habits melt at a glacier's pace.
Moreover, the Himalayan glaciers that feed Pakistan's rivers may melt by 2050, owing to global warming.
Ultimately, in the Communist utopia, conflicts of interests would melt away.

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