Melting

melt  (mlt)

v. melt·ed, melt·ing, melts

v.intr.

1. To be changed from a solid to a liquid state especially by the application of heat.

2. To dissolve: Sugar melts in water.

3. To disappear or vanish gradually as if by dissolving: The crowd melted away after the rally.

4. To pass or merge imperceptibly into something else: Sea melted into sky along the horizon.

5. To become softened in feeling: Our hearts melted at the child's tears.

6. Obsolete To be overcome or crushed, as by grief, dismay, or fear.

v.tr.

1. To change (a solid) to a liquid state especially by the application of heat.

2. To dissolve: The tide melted our sand castle away.

3. To cause to disappear gradually; disperse.

4. To cause (units) to blend: "Here individuals of all races are melted into a new race of men" Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur.

5. To soften (someone's feelings); make gentle or tender.

n.

1. A melted solid; a fused mass.

2. The state of being melted.

3.

a. The act or operation of melting.

b. The quantity melted at a single operation or in one period.

4. A usually open sandwich topped with melted cheese: a tuna melt.

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[Middle English melten, from Old English meltan; see mel-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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melta·bili·ty n.

melta·ble adj.

melter n.

melting·ly adv.

melty adj.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	melting - the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid; "the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster"; "the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours" melt, thaw, thawing heating, warming - the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature phase change, phase transition, physical change, state change - a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition
Adj.	1.	melting - becoming liquid liquescent unfrozen - not frozen; "unfrozen ground"