melt

Meaning

Verb

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.

Noun

1. Molten material, the product of melting.
2. The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
3. The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
4. A melt sandwich.
5. Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified.
6. A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
7. (slang) An idiot.
8. Variant spelling of milt, the semen of a male fish, used as food.

Concepts

melt

dissolve

thaw

fuse

liquefy

smelt

soften

melting

defrost

liquify

unfreeze

unthaw

cast

run

melt down

thawing

liquidize

disappear

fade

mellow

dethaw

flux

warm up

fusion

liquate

evaporate

mellow out

meld

boil

disintegrate

languish

pine

fuze

dilute

caramelise

caramelize

digest

wear out

liquid

melted

come unstuck

cause to come unstuck

mix

scramble

cook

dissolution

smelting

deice

condense

tap

usually

dwindle

blend

wither

become tender

commisserate

sympathize

feel compassion

become liquid

go to water

leak

close

disperse

soak in 3

be rinsed

dissolve in a liquid 3

be dissolved

soak

water

consume away

macerate

scuff

sweal

fondant

fusant

fused mass

molten bath

fusing

liquation

melt-out

cause to vanish

dry

dry up

putrefy

dissolved

very soft

weakened

render

mouth

clear away

pass off

plasticise

plasticize

ablate

fry

ablation

dissolving

meltdown

liquidise

stomach

absorb

assimilate

blend in

merge

reabsorb

shade

confess

eliminate

flow

get warm

fused

become soft

thaw out

drip

flow out

trickle down

found

be melted

weaken

break up

clear off

disband

dwindle away

crushed

destroyed

fall

rot

skirt

perspire

sweat

sell

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mɛlt/

Etymology

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”).