Melt word meaning and definition
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Meaning and definition for "melt" word
[verb] 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"
[verb] become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial; "With age, he mellowed"
[verb] 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"
[verb] lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually; "Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene"
[verb] 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"
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\Melt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Melted} (obs.) p. p. {Molten}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Melting}.] [AS. meltan; akin to Gr. me`ldein, E. malt, and prob. to E. smelt, v. [root]108. Cf. {Smelt}, v., {Malt}, {Milt} the spleen.] 1. To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow. 2. Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken. Thou would'st have . . . melted down thy youth. --Shak. For pity melts the mind to love. --Dryden. Syn: To liquefy; fuse; thaw; mollify; soften.
\Melt\, v. i. 1. To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures. 2. To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth. 3. Hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear. My soul melteth for heaviness. --Ps. cxix. 28. Melting with tenderness and kind compassion. --Shak. 4. To lose distinct form or outline; to blend. The soft, green, rounded hills, with their flowing outlines, overlapping and melting into each other. --J. C. Shairp. 5. To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away. --Shak.
Synonyms for melt
fade, fade out, meld, mellow, mellow out, melt down, melting, run, thaw, thaw, thawing, unfreeze, unthaw
See also: blend | break up | change | coalesce | combine | commingle | conflate | defrost | deice | de-ice | dissolve | flux | fuse | heating | immix | liquefy | liquify | merge | mix | phase change | phase transition | physical change | render | resolve | state change | try | warming | weaken |
Related terms: be gone, come home to, dissolve, evaporate, fade out, fleet, flit, flux, forbear, infuse, melt the heart, merge, mollify, pardon, pass, percolate, perspire, pierce, render, run, spare, waste
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Let's analyse "melt" as pure text. This string has Four letters in One syllable and One vowel. 25% of vowels is 13.6% less then average English word. Written in backwards: TLEM. Average typing speed for these characters is 1090 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
melt: 5 = 5, reduced: 5 . and the final result is Five. |
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