Melt

English Meaning

See 2d Milt.

1. To be changed from a solid to a liquid state especially by the application of heat.
2. To dissolve: Sugar melts in water.
3. To disappear or vanish gradually as if by dissolving: The crowd melted away after the rally.
4. To pass or merge imperceptibly into something else: Sea melted into sky along the horizon.
5. To become softened in feeling: Our hearts melted at the child's tears.
6. Obsolete To be overcome or crushed, as by grief, dismay, or fear.
7. To change (a solid) to a liquid state especially by the application of heat.
8. To dissolve: The tide melted our sand castle away.
9. To cause to disappear gradually; disperse.
10. To cause (units) to blend: "Here individuals of all races are melted into a new race of men” ( Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur).
11. To soften (someone's feelings); make gentle or tender.
12. A melted solid; a fused mass.
13. The state of being melted.
14. The act or operation of melting.
15. The quantity melted at a single operation or in one period.
16. A usually open sandwich topped with melted cheese: a tuna melt.