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- [melt]
- /mɛlt/
- /ˈmel.tɪŋ/
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- [melt]
- /mɛlt/
Definitions of melting word
- verb without object melting to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal. 1
- verb without object melting to become liquid; dissolve: Let the cough drop melt in your mouth. 1
- verb without object melting to pass, dwindle, or fade gradually (often followed by away): His fortune slowly melted away. 1
- verb without object melting to pass, change, or blend gradually (often followed by into): Night melted into day. 1
- verb without object melting to become softened in feeling by pity, sympathy, love, or the like: The tyrant's heart would not melt. 1
- verb without object melting Obsolete. to be subdued or overwhelmed by sorrow, dismay, etc. 1
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Origin of melting
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 Melting
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
melting 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".
melting usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for melting
adj melting
- reducing — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
- thawed — to pass or change from a frozen to a liquid or semiliquid state; melt.
- liquescent — becoming liquid; melting.
adjective melting
- tender — soft or delicate in substance; not hard or tough: a tender steak.
- sweet — having the taste or flavor characteristic of sugar, honey, etc.
- loving — feeling or showing love; warmly affectionate; fond: loving glances.
- soppy — soaked, drenched, or very wet, as ground.
- sentimental — expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
noun melting
- defunction — the act of dying; death
- intermixture — a mass of ingredients mixed together.
- dissolution — the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.
- dehydration — the act or process of dehydrating.
- liquefaction — the act or process of liquefying or making liquid.
Antonyms for melting
adjective melting
- harsh — ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
noun melting
- caseation — the formation of cheese from casein during the coagulation of milk
- inspissation — The act of thickening. The process by which something is inspissated.
- congelation — the process of congealing
- incrassation — The process of thickening.
- gelatination — Conversion into gelatin or jelly-like substance.
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