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Melt   /mɛlt/   Listen
verb
Melt  v. t.  (past melted; past part. molten; pres. part. melting)  
1.
To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow.
2.
Hence: 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. "Thou would'st have... melted down thy youth." "For pity melts the mind to love."
Synonyms: To liquefy; fuse; thaw; mollify; soften.


Melt  v. i.  (past melted; past part. molten; pres. part. melting)  
1.
To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.
2.
To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth.
3.
Hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear. "My soul melteth for heaviness." "Melting with tenderness and kind compassion."
4.
To lose distinct form or outline; to blend. See fondue. "The soft, green, rounded hills, with their flowing outlines, overlapping and melting into each other."
5.
To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away.


noun
Melt  n.  (Zool.) See 2d Milt.





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"Melt" Quotes from Famous Books



... and pink cheeks, dressed in a white silk frock with lots of little frills," she said, rapidly. "And, if you could manage it," she added, glancing sideways at the Prince, her brother, "I think I should like one that doesn't melt when you ...
— All the Way to Fairyland - Fairy Stories • Evelyn Sharp
... pastures of the plain—count them one by one till the hedges and squares close together and cannot be separated. The surface of the earth melts away as if the eyes insensibly shut and grew dreamy in gazing, as the soft clouds melt and lose their outline at the horizon. But dwelling there, the glance slowly finds and fills out something that interposes its existence between us and the further space. Too shadowy for the substance ...
— Field and Hedgerow • Richard Jefferies
... captivity, the insults they have received, and the slow, cool, systematic manner in which great numbers of those who could not be prevailed on to enter their service have been murdered, must have hearts of stone not to melt with pity for the sufferers, and burn with indignation at their tormentors. As we have daily fresh instances to prove the truth of such a representation, public justice requires that repeated public mention should be made of them. A cartel vessel lately arrived at New London in Connecticut, ...
— American Prisoners of the Revolution • Danske Dandridge
... went, the winter came— We could not rule the year; But summer will melt the ice again, And open a path to the sunny main, Whereon our ships ...
— Successful Recitations • Various
... that favors should withheld from the ungrateful. For it is written (Wis. 16:29): "The hope of the unthankful shall melt away as the winter's ice." But this hope would not melt away unless favors were withheld from him. Therefore favors should be withheld from ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas


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