melt
To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
Example
“I melted butter to make a cake.”
Other meanings
To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
“His troubles melted away.”
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.
Synonyms
- run
Related words
- deadmelt
- melt down
- melt in the mouth
- melt into
- melt someone's butter
- melt up
- melt out
- formelt
- high-melting
- low-melting
- meltaway
- chain-melted state
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "meltan".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “melt” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.