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What (who) is melt - definition
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Melt (disambiguation); Melt (album); Melts; Melt!
melt
(melts, melting, melted)
1.
When a solid substance melts or when you melt it, it changes to a liquid, usually because it has been heated.
The snow had melted, but the lake was still frozen solid...
Meanwhile, melt the white chocolate in a bowl suspended over simmering water...
Add the melted butter, molasses, salt, and flour.
VERB: V, V n, V-ed
2.
If something such as your feelings melt, they suddenly disappear and you no longer feel them. (LITERARY)
His anxiety about the outcome melted, to return later but not yet...
= dissolve
VERB: V
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When he heard these words, Shinran felt his inner doubts melt away.
PHRASAL VERB: V P
3.
If a person or thing melts into something such as darkness or a crowd of people, they become difficult to see, for example because they are moving away from you or are the same colour as the background. (LITERARY)
The youths dispersed and melted into the darkness...
= disappear
VERB: V into n
4.
If someone or something melts your heart, or if your heart melts, you start to feel love or sympathy towards them.
When his lips break into a smile, it is enough to melt any woman's heart...
When a bride walks down the aisle to a stirring tune, even the iciest of hearts melt.
VERB: V n, V
melt
v. (d; intr.) to melt into (to melt into the crowd)
melt
I. v. a.
1.
Liquefy (by heat), fuse, dissolve, thaw.
2.
Soften, make gentle, make susceptible, mollify, subdue, relax.
3.
Dissipate, waste away.
II. v. n.
1.
Dissolve, become liquid.
2.
Be softened, be made gentle, become tender.
3.
Be dissolved, lose substance.
4.
Blend, shade, pass.
5.
Be weakened, be broken, be subdued.
Examples of use of melt
1. They all seem to melt into a single, continuous drama.
2. Georg Kaser, a glaciologist at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, who led the research, said: "The glaciers are going to melt and melt until they are all gone.
3. Amid much laughter, the ice seemed instantly to melt.
4. "They felt like they were going to melt," he said.
5. "I feel as though I would melt otherwise," she said.