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Definitions for Melt

[1] to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
[2] to become liquid; dissolve: Let the cough drop melt in your mouth.
[3] to pass, dwindle, or fade gradually (often followed by away ): His fortune slowly melted away.
[4] to pass, change, or blend gradually (often followed by into ): Night melted into day.
[5] to become softened in feeling by pity, sympathy, love, or the like: The tyrant's heart would not melt.
[6] Obsolete . to be subdued or overwhelmed by sorrow, dismay, etc.
[7] to reduce to a liquid state by warmth or heat; fuse: Fire melts ice.
[8] to cause to pass away or fade.
[9] to cause to pass, change, or blend gradually.
[10] to soften in feeling, as a person or the heart.
[11] the act or process of melting; state of being melted.
[12] something that is melted.
[13] a quantity melted at one time.
[14] a sandwich or other dish topped with melted cheese: a tuna melt.
[15] the spleen, especially that of a cow, pig, etc.
[16] to liquefy (a solid) or (of a solid) to become liquefied, as a result of the action of heat
[17] to become or make liquid; dissolve cakes that melt in the mouth
[18] (often foll by away) to disappear; fade
[19] (foll by down) to melt (metal scrap) for reuse
[20] (often foll by into) to blend or cause to blend gradually
[21] to make or become emotional or sentimental; soften
[22] the act or process of melting
[23] something melted or an amount melted

Words related to Melt

thaw, disintegrate, evaporate, soften, heat, warm, fade, vanish, disappear, touch, deliquesce, run, evanesce, render, merge, flow, flux, fuse, disperse, go

Words nearby Melt

melotia, melpomene, melrose, melrose abbey, melrose park, melt, melt in one's mouth, meltage, meltdown, meltemi, melter

Origin of Melt

2First recorded in 1575–85; variant of milt

Words that may be confused with Melt

evanescence, evaporation, liquefaction, melting, thawing, transpiration, vaporization

Other words from Melt

melt·a·ble , adjective
melt·a·bil·i·ty , noun
melt·ing·ly , adverb
melt·ing·ness , noun
non·melt·a·ble , adjective
non·melt·ing , adjective
un·melt·a·ble , adjective
un·melt·ed , adjective
un·melt·ing , adjective

Word origin for Melt

Old English meltan to digest; related to Old Norse melta to malt (beer), digest, Greek meldein to melt

Synonyms for Melt

disappear, disintegrate, evaporate, fade, heat, soften, thaw, vanish, warm, cook, deliquesce, diffuse, disperse, evanesce, flow, flux, fuse, go, merge, render, run, smelt, pass away, waste away