Synonyms for melt
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1. meltverb

   Synonyms:
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. melt

   Synonyms:
   dissolve, liquify, colliquate, run, flow, fuse

   Antonyms:
   consolidate, crystallize, indurate

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1. thaw, melt, thawing, meltingverb

   the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid

   "the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster"; "the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours"

   Synonyms:
   thawing, warming, thaw, melting

2. melt, run, melt downverb

   reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating

   "melt butter"; "melt down gold"; "The wax melted in the sun"

   Synonyms:
   course, unfreeze, operate, hunt, fly the coop, work, scat, run away, move, disappear, range, run, evaporate, function, lead, lam, dethaw, flow, melt down, mellow out, track down, break away, head for the hills, extend, hunt down, endure, bunk, take to the woods, consort, execute, feed, die hard, bleed, carry, scarper, dissolve, go, unravel, meld, lean, play, fade, race, pass, mellow, thaw, run for, black market, be given, persist, incline, ladder, draw, hightail it, unthaw, prevail, campaign, tend, escape, guide, ply, turn tail

3. dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw, dethaw, meltverb

   become or cause to become soft or liquid

   "The sun melted the ice"; "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"

   Synonyms:
   unthaw, melt down, unblock, unfreeze, mellow out, fade away, thaw, free, release, dethaw, dismiss, resolve, disappear, run, break up, evaporate, fade out, meld, mellow, dissolve, fade, disband

4. mellow, melt, mellow outverb

   become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial

   "With age, he mellowed"

   Synonyms:
   dethaw, run, meld, fade, melt down, evaporate, thaw, dissolve, mellow, mellow out, unthaw, disappear, unfreeze

5. melt, meldverb

   lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually

   "Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene"

   Synonyms:
   combine, conflate, run, unfreeze, blend, melt down, coalesce, fade, evaporate, thaw, merge, unthaw, mix, mellow out, dethaw, commingle, flux, disappear, dissolve, meld, mellow, fuse, immix

6. fade, meltverb

   become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly

   "The scene begins to fade"; "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk"

   Synonyms:
   evanesce, pass off, fleet, run, melt down, unfreeze, mellow out, blow over, thaw, unthaw, mellow, dethaw, disappear, dissolve, evaporate, languish, pass, wither, fade, meld

7. melt, disappear, evaporateverb

   become less intense and fade away gradually

   "her resistance melted under his charm"; "her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance"

   Synonyms:
   vaporize, run, unfreeze, melt down, thaw, fade, go away, evaporate, mellow out, unthaw, vanish, dethaw, disappear, dissolve, vaporise, meld, mellow

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. meltverb

   Synonyms:
   liquefy (by heat), fuse

2. meltverb

   Synonyms:
   soften, make gentle, make susceptible

3. meltverb

   Synonyms:
   dissolve, become liquid

4. meltverb

   Synonyms:
   be softened, be made gentle

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1. meltverb

   Synonyms:
   dissolve, liquefy, thaw, fuse, soften, blend, swale, colliquate

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1. List of paraphrases for "melt":

   melting, smelting, magma, snowmelt, source, thawing, implode, blend, subsume

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1. Orison Swett Marden:

   Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

2. Leif Ristroph:

   These experiments tell an origin story for oriented meteorites, the very aerodynamic forces that melt and reshape meteoroids in flight also stabilize [them] so that a cone shape can be carved and ultimately arrive on Earth.

3. Ben Carson:

   Look at what happened, again another hate crime in San Bernardino today, at least 14 people killed. When less than a week ago we had the shooting in Colorado. And then look at all the things that are going on around the world. ISIS and groups like this. Just hatred and evil. And we need to be able to combat these things because otherwise we will melt into despair. And that's not who we are. This is America.

4. Eric Ahasic:

   Minneapolis had their third-snowiest winter on record, so a lot of it was sitting around waiting to melt, we didn’t really add a ton of heavy rain on top of the snowpack while that snow was melting, so that kind of allowed it to progress fairly orderly, but we’re going to have some minor flooding in a lot of rivers.

5. Chad Galer:

   We're trying to make natural cheese melt like Velveeta, but we haven't unlocked that yet.