Melting

/ˈmɛltɪŋ/ · adjective

Meaning

Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying..

Definitions by Sense

1. Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
2. Given over to strong emotion; tender; aroused; emotional, tearful.
3. That causes one to melt with emotion; able to make others feel tender and emotional.
4. present participle and gerund of melt
5. The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.
6. (figurative) The act of softening or mitigating.

Example Sentences

What guards the purity of melting maids, / In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades [...]?

And he, Allada Khan, had decided that the child was not unlike himself - an unaggressive nose, and intelligent forehead, eyes both lively and melting.

Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.

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• more melting
• most melting
• meltings

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