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melt away

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? melt away
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(lit) → (weg)schmelzen
(fig) → sich auflösen; (crowd) → dahinschmelzen; (anger, anxiety) → verfliegen; (suspicion, money) → zerrinnen


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She saw two women as he spoke, one old, the other young, watching their inheritance melt away.
Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context
But you are something of a prince, fifteen or sixteen thousand livres melt away between your fingers; and then you have expenses and appearances ---- "
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
And when she went out in the morning, instead of working, she went from office to office and let her heart melt away in the drip of cold refusals transmitted through insolent office boys.
The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context
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