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- [melt]
- /mɛlt/
- /melt/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [melt]
- /mɛlt/
Definitions of melt word
- verb without object melt to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal. 1
- verb without object melt to become liquid; dissolve: Let the cough drop melt in your mouth. 1
- verb without object melt to pass, dwindle, or fade gradually (often followed by away): His fortune slowly melted away. 1
- verb without object melt to pass, change, or blend gradually (often followed by into): Night melted into day. 1
- verb without object melt to become softened in feeling by pity, sympathy, love, or the like: The tyrant's heart would not melt. 1
- verb without object melt Obsolete. to be subdued or overwhelmed by sorrow, dismay, etc. 1
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Origin of melt
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English melten, Old English meltan (intransitive), m(i)elten (transitive) to melt, digest; cognate with Old Norse melta to digest, Greek méldein to melt
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Parts of speech for Melt
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
melt popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 93% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
melt usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for melt
verb melt
- thaw — to pass or change from a frozen to a liquid or semiliquid state; melt.
- disintegrate — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
- soften — to make soft or softer.
- heat — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- warm — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
Antonyms for melt
verb melt
- coagulate — When a liquid coagulates, it becomes very thick.
- condense — If you condense something, especially a piece of writing or speech, you make it shorter, usually by including only the most important parts.
- solidify — to make solid; make into a hard or compact mass; change from a liquid or gaseous to a solid form.
- freeze — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
- cool — Something that is cool has a temperature which is low but not very low.
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