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melt
Pronunciation: (melt), [key]
—v., melt•ed, melt•ed or mol•ten, melt•ing,
—n.
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v.i.
1. to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
2. to become liquid; dissolve:
Let the cough drop melt in your mouth.
3. to pass, dwindle, or fade gradually (often fol. by
away):
His fortune slowly melted away.
4. to pass, change, or blend gradually (often fol. by
into):
Night melted into day.
5. to become softened in feeling by pity, sympathy, love, or the like:
The tyrant's heart would not melt.
6. Obs.to be subdued or overwhelmed by sorrow, dismay, etc.
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v.t.
1. to reduce to a liquid state by warmth or heat; fuse:
Fire melts ice.
2. to cause to pass away or fade.
3. to cause to pass, change, or blend gradually.
4. to soften in feeling, as a person or the heart.
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n.
1. the act or process of melting; state of being melted.
2. something that is melted.
3. a quantity melted at one time.
4. a sandwich or other dish topped with melted cheese:
a tuna melt. melt
Pronunciation: (melt), [key]—
n.
the spleen, esp. that of a cow, pig, etc.
Also,milt.Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
