melt
verb (used without object)
to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
melted
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past participleof melt.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof melt.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
meltverb (used without object)to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
Example Sentences
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Packard Motor Car plunged 50.7%, RCA dropped 31.3%, Montgomery Ward lost 20.5%, International Nickel melted by 17.2% and Consolidated Gas Co. fizzled by 17.1%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
The subtext of their question is the worry that, just as Icarus soared so high that the sun melted his wings of wax, a market that rises too far is prone to crashing.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
“I’m not a big fan of eating too much on game day so when I saw that melted cheese and a whole lot of carbs, I was ready to chow down,” he said this week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
The parent bodies represented by these meteorites contained so much radioactive aluminum-26 that they eventually melted completely.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
They trained all summer, though most of the snow had melted by July, going out days and nights and traveling at least fifty miles each time.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
