- liquescent, melting - becoming liquid
Antonym: frozen (indirect, via unfrozen)
- thaw, melt, thawing, melting - 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"
--1 is a kind of heating, warming; phase change, phase transition, state change, physical change
Derived forms: verb melt1, verb melt2
- melt, run, melt down - 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"
--1 is one way to dissolve, resolve, break up
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun melt1, noun melting1
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- dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw, dethaw, melt - 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"
--2 is one way to liquefy, flux, liquify
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun melt1, noun melter1, noun melting1
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- mellow, melt, mellow out - become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial; "With age, he mellowed"
--3 is one way to change
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- melt, meld - lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually; "Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene"
--4 is one way to blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge
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- fade, melt - 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"
--5 is one way to weaken
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- melt, disappear - become less intense and fade away gradually; "her resistance melted under his charm"
--6 is one way to weaken
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