molten

[ mohl-tn ]

verb

1. a past participle of melt ¹.

adjective

1. liquefied by heat; in a state of fusion; melted:

   molten lead.

2. produced by melting and casting:

   a molten image.

molten

/ ˈməʊltən /

adjective

1. liquefied; melted

   molten lead

2. made by having been melted

   molten casts

verb

1. the past participle of melt

Other Words From

• molten·ly adverb
• super·molten adjective
• un·molten adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of molten¹

1250–1300; Middle English; old past participle of melt ¹

Example Sentences

The staple looks enticing, served in a raised bowl with a molten cap of Emmental and Gruyere cheeses.

From Washington Post

Without warning, as summer gave way to autumn, my lower back began aching, as though loaded with molten lava.

From Outside Online

This melting process is tricky, explains Truex, because there’s no good way to take the temperature of the molten metal since any thermometer placed in it will melt.

From Eater

Ultimately, understanding how the molten materials deep within the Earth became rocks provides Iacovino insights about the overall geological makeup and origins of Earth.

From Popular-Science

Scientists have long considered it the hell of the solar system, hotter than molten lead and with an unbreathable atmosphere.

From Science News

There is no better thing on a Sunday afternoon than a fruity, molten, crunchy crumble.

From The Daily Beast

Underneath, however, lies the permanently molten lava of Scottish memory and its sense of English repression.

From The Daily Beast

The moist rectangle of cooked meat and molten blob of cheese are then layered in a hard roll.

From The Daily Beast

So, geologists have to look to other dating methods, ones that can measure into the period when rocks were still molten.

From The Daily Beast

When Earth first formed, its surface was molten, so there are no rocks for us to study from that era.

From The Daily Beast

They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god.

From Project Gutenberg

What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image?

From Project Gutenberg

Through the fissures and crevices sheets of white sun-rays poured like molten silver.

From Project Gutenberg

The great rift in the volcano widened, and the molten lava was visible until steam rose again.

From Project Gutenberg

The cylinder of platinum gauze may be made by joining the ends of rolled gauze with pieces of molten glass.

From Project Gutenberg