melt
1to 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.
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.
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.
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.
Origin of melt
1synonym study For melt
Other words for melt
Other words from melt
- melt·a·ble, adjective
- melt·a·bil·i·ty [mel-tuh-bil-i-tee], /ˌmɛl təˈbɪl ɪ ti/, noun
- melt·ing·ly, adverb
- melt·ing·ness, noun
- non·melt·a·ble, adjective
- non·melt·ing, adjective
- un·melt·a·ble, adjective
- un·melt·ed, adjective
- un·melt·ing, adjective
Words that may be confused with melt
- evanescence, evaporation, liquefaction, melting , thawing, transpiration, vaporization
Words Nearby melt
How to use melt in a sentence
While the beans are cooling and drying, melt the butter in a saute pan over medium heat.
Make Carla Hall’s Crispy Shallot Green Bean Casserole | Carla Hall | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAdd chocolate and butter to the bowl and melt, stirring to combine.
The pictures which would melt even the hardest of Republcian hearts were taken at the end of November.
Dessert is a slice of melt-in-your-mouth treacle tart with a dollop of perfectly tart clotted cream.
melt butter and marshmallow in big stock pot then add puffed rice cereal.
Epic Meal Empire’s Meat Monstrosities: From the Bacon Spider to the Cinnabattleship | Harley Morenstein | July 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
From the said mixture, although they tried it several times, it was impossible to fuse or melt the said ore.
O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousI feel all untied in a place like this; the rigidity of one's nature begins to melt and flow.
Three More John Silence Stories | Algernon BlackwoodIn his later years he must often have wished his “too too solid flesh would melt,” for it had become a heavy burden.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowThe anger and indignation Jess had felt began to melt before this apology and the ladys frank manner.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage | Gertrude W. Morrison
British Dictionary definitions for melt
/ (mɛlt) /
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
the act or process of melting
something melted or an amount melted
Origin of melt
1Derived forms of melt
- meltable, adjective
- meltability, noun
- melter, noun
- meltingly, adverb
- meltingness, noun
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for melt
[ mĕlt ]
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.
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Other Idioms and Phrases with melt
In addition to the idiom beginning with melt
- melt in one's mouth
also see:
- butter wouldn't melt
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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