Melt

Quick meaning: Melt is a verb meaning (ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.

Meaning

(ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
2. (intransitive) To be discouraged.
3. (intransitive, figurative) To be emotionally softened or touched.
4. (intransitive, colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.
5. Molten material, the product of melting.
6. The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
7. (ambitransitive, figurative) 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.

Example Sentences

His troubles melted away.

I melted butter to make a cake.

For pity melts the mind to love.

Thou would'st have […] melted down thy youth.

Word Forms

• melts
• melting
• melted
• meltest
• meltedst
• melteth

Synonyms for melt

Depending on context, synonyms include tart, mellow, run, melting, unfreeze, thawing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include thaw, unthaw, thawing, unfreeze, run, mellow.

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