melt

verb

ˈmelt How to pronounce melt (audio)
Definition of meltnext
1
as in to disappear
to cease to be visible the fog soon melted away with the rising of the sun

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2
as in to thaw
to go from a solid to a liquid state a forgotten carton of ice cream was melting away on the counter

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Recent Examples of melt Each bite was unique — a pocket of cold sour cream here, the cheese only partially melted there, the last crisp cry of the ever-steaming French fries yonder. — Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026 What is clear is that Earth’s glaciers are melting faster as a result of warming and that melting is destabilizing these glaciers—and the mountains that buttress them. — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026 These snow packs are needed each year to melt slowly throughout the summer and fall providing crucial water supply to the state. — Jonathan Destler, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026 Scientists could use future gravity instruments to track shifting groundwater and melting ice. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for melt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for melt
  1. disappear
  2. thaw
  3. vanish
  4. liquefy
  5. fade
  6. soften
  7. dissolve
  8. fuse
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  • Up to half of the more than 200,000 mountain glaciers — vast, slow moving rivers of ice that creep across the world’s peaks — are expected to disappear by the end of this century, even if ambitious climate goals are met.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Among the habitats Steinbach filmed are tidal floodplain forests, a landscape type that has largely disappeared in Europe.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of disappear
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  • But if time is not on your side, salmon can also be thawed in cold water and in the microwave.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2026
  • In 2023, thawing permafrost led to a rock collapse into South Lhonak Lake in Sikkim, India, generating a wave that burst through the moraine holding back the glacial lake.
    — Umesh Haritashya, The Conversation, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of thaw
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  • On the same day Krebs published his post, the service mysteriously vanished from the dark web, which could make tracking down the people behind the hack more difficult.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Jordan may wish to exact revenge, and Eddy may want to find one of the victims who has vanished, but both have to go about their work furtively.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
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  • And that’s only counting crude oil, not liquefied natural gas, petrochemicals, or other cargoes that rely on the strait.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Once that’s done, the gas will be conveyed to the Damietta processing facility on Egypt’s northern shore where it will be liquefied for transport by ship to Europe.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of liquefy
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  • As his memories begin to fade, he's left in a panic, not wanting to lose everything.
    — Grace Dean, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026
  • It was designed to give Hawthorne’s fading downtown a boost with three major department stores — JCPenney in addition to the Broadway and Montgomery Ward — as well as numerous shops and a movie theater.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of fade
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  • Talanx German insurer Talanx 's lean cost base and 6 billion euros of resilience reserves can help sustain earnings growth, even as pricing softens in its reinsurance and corporate-specialty units, according to Goldman.
    — Hugh Leask, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Instead of guessing the right prompt keywords, a user can simply instruct the model to track the camera left, soften the lighting or maintain a character's expression across different scenes.
    — Coco Mao, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of soften
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  • The highest-ticket item is a funnel-neck jacket in rich chocolate sheep leather that dissolves into black toward the waist (399€), which can be paired with a matching pencil skirt.
    — Tina Isaac-Goizé, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The alternative approach is hydrometallurgy, which dissolves the metals in acid.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of dissolve
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  • To experience a thicker, chewier noodle, order the tsukemen (dipping-style ramen) with a broth, as dense as gravy, fusing the essences of pork, chicken and fish.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
  • In recent years, however, a younger generation of entrepreneurs has broadened the scope, fusing Arabic culture and social media culture in fun, modern ways.
    — Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 30 Aug. 2026
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