melt
To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
Verb 4 meanings
To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
“I melted butter to make a cake.”
To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
“His troubles melted away.”
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.
To be discouraged.
Noun 4 meanings
Molten material, the product of melting.
The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
A melt sandwich.
Etymology
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”).
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MELT at a glance
MELT has 4 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (M 3 + E 1 + L 1 + T 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,466 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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