melt

Meaning

1. To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
2. To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
3. 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.
4. To be discouraged.
5. To be emotionally softened or touched.
6. (colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.

dissolve

become soft

become tender

come unstuck

get warm

thaw out

trickle down

very soft

cause to come unstuck

soak in 3

dissolve in a liquid 3

be melted

become liquid

go to water

consume away

feel compassion

be dissolved

be rinsed

cause to vanish

commisserate

fusant

molten bath

fused mass

ablate

melt-out

ablation

dwindle away

flow out

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mɛlt/

From Middle English melten, from a merger of Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both meaning “to melt, digest,” from Proto-West Germanic *meltan and *maltijan, from Proto-Germanic *meltaną and *maltijaną, both from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“melt”). Cognate with Icelandic melta (“to digest”).

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