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Synonyms for melt
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Wiktionary3.5 / 6 votes

  1. meltverb

    Synonyms:
    foundEtymology 3

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 1 vote

  1. melt

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

    Antonyms:
    consolidate, crystallize, indurate

Princeton's WordNet2.3 / 4 votes

  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 Synonymes0.0 / 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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words3.0 / 1 vote

  1. meltverb

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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "melt":

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

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How to use melt in a sentence?

  1. Robert McNabb:

    Those areas are seeing a rapid pace of glacier melt that could be fairly worrying, we get this increase in melt and that actually increases the availability of water that comes in these rivers... but the problem is, after a period of time, that stops increasing and then decreases fairly rapidly.

  2. Saint Teresa of Avila:

    Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

  3. David Guetta:

    I remember buying those records and the label (vinyl sticker), (DJs) would use old records and print on top of it, melt it, and print on the top...very low quality, this was super, super underground.

  4. Kahlil Gibran:

    Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

  5. Gilbert Keith Chesterton:

    The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not many. Do you not realise in your heart, do you not believe behind all your beliefs, that there is but one reality and we are its shadows and that all things are but aspects of one thing a centre where men melt into Man and Man into God 'No,' said Father Brown.


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