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Melting   /mˈɛltɪŋ/   Listen
Melting

noun
1.
The process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid.  Synonyms: melt, thaw, thawing.  "The thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours"
adjective
1.
Becoming liquid.  Synonym: liquescent.



Melt

verb
(past melted; past part. molten; pres. part. melting)
1.
Reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating.  Synonyms: melt down, run.  "Melt down gold" , "The wax melted in the sun"
2.
Become or cause to become soft or liquid.  Synonyms: dethaw, dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw.  "The ice thawed" , "The ice cream melted" , "The heat melted the wax" , "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase" , "Dethaw the meat"
3.
Become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial.  Synonyms: mellow, mellow out.
4.
Lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually.  Synonym: meld.
5.
Become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly.  Synonym: fade.  "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk"
6.
Become less intense and fade away gradually.  Synonyms: disappear, evaporate.  "Her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance"



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"Melting" Quotes from Famous Books



... heart throbbed while I turned away; but the pain instead of melting my pride, only increased the terrible reticence which I wore now as an armour. Her face, above the heavy furs that seemed dragging her down, had in it something of the soft, uncompromising obstinacy of Miss Matoaca. So delicate she appeared that I could almost have broken her body in my grasp; ...
— The Romance of a Plain Man • Ellen Glasgow

... melting, broken heart, My murdered Lord I view, I'll raise revenge against my sins, And slay ...
— Our Master • Bramwell Booth

... tasteth the savor of stern pity. She was silent, and the angels sang of a sudden, "In te, Domine, speravi;" but beyond "pedes meos"[1] they did not pass. Even as the snow, among the living rafters upon the back of Italy, is congealed, blown and packed by Sclavonian winds, then melting trickles through itself, if only the land that loses shadow breathe,[2] so that it seems a fire that melts the candle: so was I without tears and sighs before the song of those who time their notes after the notes of the eternal circles. But when ...
— The Divine Comedy, Volume 2, Purgatory [Purgatorio] • Dante Alighieri

... before; but the heat was no less. Over the clear sky the high thin clouds were hardly stirred, yellowish-white, like snow lying late in spring, flat and drawn out like rolled-up sails. Slowly but perceptibly their fringed edges, soft and fluffy as cotton-wool, changed at every moment; they were melting away, even these clouds, and no shadow fell from them. I strolled about the clearing for a long while with Kassyan. Young shoots, which had not yet had time to grow more than a yard high, surrounded the low blackened stumps with their ...
— A Sportsman's Sketches - Works of Ivan Turgenev, Vol. I • Ivan Turgenev

... icicle hangs at the gable end, But melts when the sun is high, Why does your heart not to me unbend, And warm to my melting sigh." ...
— Japanese Literature - Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical - Poetry and Drama of Japan • Various


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