melt
verb
[ mɛlt ]
• make or become liquefied by heat.
• "the hot metal melted the wax"
Similar:
liquefy,
thaw,
unfreeze,
defrost,
soften,
run,
flux,
fuse,
render,
clarify,
dissolve,
deliquesce,
• make or become more tender or loving.
• "Richard gave her a smile that melted her heart"
• leave or disappear unobtrusively.
• "the compromise was accepted and the opposition melted away"
Similar:
vanish,
vanish into thin air,
disappear,
fade away,
dissipate,
disperse,
go away,
peter out,
pass,
dissolve,
evaporate,
evanesce,
melt
noun
• an act or period of melting.
• "the precipitation falls as snow and is released during the spring melt"
Origin:
Old English meltan, mieltan, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse melta ‘to malt, digest’, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek meldein ‘to melt’, Latin mollis ‘soft’, also by malt.
