melt

CEFRB1

/mɛlt/

verb

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  1. 01

    verb

    To become liquid because of heat.

  2. 02

    verb

    To gradually disappear or become less strong.

Examples

  • A plastic dish will melt on the stove.

  • Alice felt something hard melt in her heart.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
3

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verb

Extra meanings

  1. To dissolve, disperse, vanish.

  2. 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.

  3. To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.

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In context

  • I melted butter to make a cake.

  • When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt.

  • His troubles melted away.

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Origin

verb

From Middle English melten, from a merger of Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both meaning “to melt, digest,” from Proto-West Germanic *meltan and *maltijan, from Proto-Germanic *meltaną and *maltijaną, both from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“melt”). Cognate with Icelandic melta (“to digest”).