Synonyms for melt
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1. meltverb

   Synonyms:
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. melt

   Synonyms:
   dissolve, liquify, colliquate, run, flow, fuse

   Antonyms:
   consolidate, crystallize, indurate

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1. thaw, melt, thawing, meltingverb

   the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid

   "the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster"; "the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours"

   Synonyms:
   thawing, warming, thaw, melting

2. melt, run, melt downverb

   reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating

   "melt butter"; "melt down gold"; "The wax melted in the sun"

   Synonyms:
   course, unfreeze, operate, hunt, fly the coop, work, scat, run away, move, disappear, range, run, evaporate, function, lead, lam, dethaw, flow, melt down, mellow out, track down, break away, head for the hills, extend, hunt down, endure, bunk, take to the woods, consort, execute, feed, die hard, bleed, carry, scarper, dissolve, go, unravel, meld, lean, play, fade, race, pass, mellow, thaw, run for, black market, be given, persist, incline, ladder, draw, hightail it, unthaw, prevail, campaign, tend, escape, guide, ply, turn tail

3. dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw, dethaw, meltverb

   become or cause to become soft or liquid

   "The sun melted the ice"; "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"

   Synonyms:
   unthaw, melt down, unblock, unfreeze, mellow out, fade away, thaw, free, release, dethaw, dismiss, resolve, disappear, run, break up, evaporate, fade out, meld, mellow, dissolve, fade, disband

4. mellow, melt, mellow outverb

   become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial

   "With age, he mellowed"

   Synonyms:
   dethaw, run, meld, fade, melt down, evaporate, thaw, dissolve, mellow, mellow out, unthaw, disappear, unfreeze

5. melt, meldverb

   lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually

   "Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene"

   Synonyms:
   combine, conflate, run, unfreeze, blend, melt down, coalesce, fade, evaporate, thaw, merge, unthaw, mix, mellow out, dethaw, commingle, flux, disappear, dissolve, meld, mellow, fuse, immix

6. fade, meltverb

   become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly

   "The scene begins to fade"; "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk"

   Synonyms:
   evanesce, pass off, fleet, run, melt down, unfreeze, mellow out, blow over, thaw, unthaw, mellow, dethaw, disappear, dissolve, evaporate, languish, pass, wither, fade, meld

7. melt, disappear, evaporateverb

   become less intense and fade away gradually

   "her resistance melted under his charm"; "her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance"

   Synonyms:
   vaporize, run, unfreeze, melt down, thaw, fade, go away, evaporate, mellow out, unthaw, vanish, dethaw, disappear, dissolve, vaporise, meld, mellow

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. meltverb

   Synonyms:
   liquefy (by heat), fuse

2. meltverb

   Synonyms:
   soften, make gentle, make susceptible

3. meltverb

   Synonyms:
   dissolve, become liquid

4. meltverb

   Synonyms:
   be softened, be made gentle

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1. meltverb

   Synonyms:
   dissolve, liquefy, thaw, fuse, soften, blend, swale, colliquate

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1. List of paraphrases for "melt":

   melting, smelting, magma, snowmelt, source, thawing, implode, blend, subsume

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1. Anonymous:

   Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

2. Christopher Chin:

   There is going to be some melt where people do go back into an institutional school setting, but for many parents, they’re finding this is a better way of life for them and their children.

3. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud:

   We are planning that by the first quarter of next year there will not be a territory, space, controlled by al Shabaab, We know that is not the end. We know al Shabaab will melt into society and keep continuing this asymmetric urban warfare for some time but that is the next phase of the conflict.

4. Kieran Baxter:

   The scale of the ice loss was immediately evident as we reached altitude but it was only by comparing the images side-by-side that the last 100 years of change were made visible. It was both a breathtaking and heartbreaking experience, particularly knowing that the melt has accelerated massively in the last few decades, unless we drastically reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, there will be little ice left to photograph in another hundred years.

5. Denis Diderot:

   Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.