melt
melt is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 8 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to mell wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow.
- 2.Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken. Thou would'st have . . . melted down thy youth. Shak. For pity melts the mind to love. Dryden.
- 3.To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.
- 4.To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth.
- 5.Hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear. My soul melteth for heaviness. Ps. cxix.
- 6.Melting with tenderness and kind compassion. Shak.
- 7.To lose distinct form or outline; to blend. The soft, green, rounded hills, with their flowing outlines, overlapping and melting into each other. J. C. Shairp.
- 8.To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away. Shak.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abate
- abatement
- abridge
- abridgment
- absorb
- absorption
- alkahest
- alloy
- amalgam
- amalgamate
- amalgamation
- and
- anticlimax
- apozem
- attenuate
- avaunt
- away
- bate
- behind
- blend
- blending
- blood
- cement
- centralization
- centralize
- chyle
- coalesce
- coalescence
- coarctation
- colliquation
- colliquative
- colliquefaction
- combination
- combine
- combined
- composition
- compound
- condense
- consolidate
- contract
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is melt.
- What is to reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to mell wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow called?
- What is to be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures called?
- What is to dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth called?
- What is hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear. My soul melteth for heaviness. Ps. cxix called?
- What is melting with tenderness and kind compassion. Shak called?
- What is to lose distinct form or outline; to blend. The soft, green, rounded hills, with their flowing outlines, overlapping and melting into each other. J. C. Shairp called?
- What is to disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away. Shak called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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