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Melt

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mellownoun(also figuratively, of food or drink, or its flavour) Matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
runverbTo move swiftly.
meltingnounThe process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.
melt downverb(intransitive, figuratively) To have a breakdown; to collapse or fail utterly.
unfreezeverb(transitive) To defrost something.
thawingnounThe process by which something thaws.
unthawverb(ambitransitive) To thaw out, to unfreeze; to become soft (of something which had been frozen).
thawnoun(intransitive) To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Melt"

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thawnoun(intransitive) To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen.
unthawverb(ambitransitive) To thaw out, to unfreeze; to become soft (of something which had been frozen).
thawingnounThe process by which something thaws.
unfreezeverb(transitive) To defrost something.
melt downverb(intransitive, figuratively) To have a breakdown; to collapse or fail utterly.
runverbTo move swiftly.
mellownoun(also figuratively, of food or drink, or its flavour) Matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
moltenMelted, especially due to great heat
deiceverb(transitive) To remove the ice from something.
defrostnoun(transitive) To thaw something.
meltwaternounWater from melting ice or snow.
snowmeltnounRunoff from melting snow.
fountnoun(figurative) That from which something proceeds; an origin, a source.
wellspringnoun(figurative) A perennial source of anything; a fountainhead of supply or emanation; resource.
smeltingnoun(metallurgy) The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.
cast-ironnounAlternative spelling of cast iron. [A hard and brittle, but strong, alloy of iron, carbon, and silicon, formed by casting in a mould.]
liquidnoun(physical chemistry) A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.
ironnoun(uncountable) A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel: a chemical element having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe.
digestnoun(transitive) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
magmanoun(geology) The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.

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