melting
融化,熔化,熔解,溶化
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Definitions
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melt·ed, melt·ed or mol·ten, melt·ing.
- : to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
- : to become liquid; dissolve: Let the cough drop melt in your mouth.
- : to pass, dwindle, or fade gradually: His fortune slowly melted away.
- : to pass, change, or blend gradually: Night melted into day.
- : to become softened in feeling by pity, sympathy, love, or the like: The tyrant's heart would not melt.
- : Obsolete. to be subdued or overwhelmed by sorrow, dismay, etc.
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melt·ed, melt·ed or mol·ten, melt·ing.
- : to reduce to a liquid state by warmth or heat; fuse: Fire melts ice.
- : to cause to pass away or fade.
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Phrases
- melt in one's mouth
- butter wouldn't melt
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Alastair Sim had jowls like melting candle wax, a snarl like a cornered cat and eyes cold with contempt.
Idris Elba has, in the eyes of many, reached the melting point.
It's often said that America is a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities.
The Levant is already a far cry from the cosmopolitan melting pot it once was.
The glaciers are melting because snowfall is decreasing and temperatures are rising—bad news for wolverines.
All the lower sky was pink, melting imperceptibly into the still pale blue of day.
With a prickly heat suffusing my whole body and a melting sensation at the collar I struggled through the wretched lyric once.
This motion is favoured by the gradual though incomplete melting of the flakes as the heat penetrates the mass.
In a glacial district this snow mass above the melting line is called the névé.
There was still the same yearning gaze, the same melting tenderness, but there was something more.