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say it: melt
melt is a verb and noun meaning "reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating". It carries 7 recorded senses.
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”
become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
“With age, he mellowed”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for melt come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.