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Melting   /mˈɛltɪŋ/   Listen
Melting

noun
1.
The process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid.  Synonyms: melt, thaw, thawing.  "The thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours"
adjective
1.
Becoming liquid.  Synonym: liquescent.



Melt

verb
(past melted; past part. molten; pres. part. melting)
1.
Reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating.  Synonyms: melt down, run.  "Melt down gold" , "The wax melted in the sun"
2.
Become or cause to become soft or liquid.  Synonyms: dethaw, dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw.  "The ice thawed" , "The ice cream melted" , "The heat melted the wax" , "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase" , "Dethaw the meat"
3.
Become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial.  Synonyms: mellow, mellow out.
4.
Lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually.  Synonym: meld.
5.
Become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly.  Synonym: fade.  "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk"
6.
Become less intense and fade away gradually.  Synonyms: disappear, evaporate.  "Her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance"



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"Melting" Quotes from Famous Books



... I never saw so much Beauty. Oh the Charms of those sprightly black Eyes, that strangely fair Face, full of Smiles and Dimples! those soft round melting cherry Lips! and small even white Teeth! not to be exprest, but silently adored!— Oh one Look more, and strike me dumb, or I shall repeat nothing else till I am mad. [He seems to court her to pull off her ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6) • Aphra Behn

... of young M'Coy, it is said, was heroic beyond his years. Instead of melting with his disconsolate mother, he exhorted her like one who had acted on principle, and now felt its divine consolations stronger ...
— The Life of General Francis Marion • Mason Locke Weems

... other, and each ceased to feel his own sorrow, and was conscious only of that of his friend. They clasped their hands. In both there was sad serenity. Gently, while no wind stirred, the misty veil was raised: the blue sky shone forth again. The melting sweetness of the earth after rain.... So near to us, so tender!... The earth takes us in her arms, clasps us to her bosom with a lovely loving smile, ...
— Jean Christophe: In Paris - The Market-Place, Antoinette, The House • Romain Rolland

... became afterwards his life-work. "He happened to take up a thin scale of India-rubber," says his biographer, "peeled from a bottle, and it was suggested to his mind that it would be a very useful fabric if it could be made uniformly so thin, and could be so prepared as to prevent its melting and sticking together in a solid mass." Often afterward he had a vivid presentiment that he was destined by ...
— The Junior Classics • Various

... seem so bad. "To-night it is flat calm; the sun so warm that in spite of the temperature we can stand about outside in the greatest comfort. It is amusing to stand thus and remember the constant horrors of our situation as they were painted for us: the sun is melting the snow on the ski, etc. The plateau is now very flat, but we are still ascending slowly. The sastrugi are getting more confused, predominant from the S.E. I wonder what is in store for us. At present everything seems to be going with extraordinary smoothness.... We feel ...
— The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 - Antarctic 1910-1913 • Apsley Cherry-Garrard


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