melt — to change from solid to liquid by heating
Part of speech: VERB
Definition: to change from solid to liquid by heating
Pronunciation (IPA): /melt/
Example Sentences
- My chocolate bar melted in my pocket and made a sweet mess.
- The snowman melted so fast, it looked like it was having a bad hair day.
- She melted the cheese for the perfect grilled sandwich.
melt
VERB[/melt/]
to change from solid to liquid by heating
The ice cream melted quickly under the hot summer sun.
The chocolate melted in the boy's hand and became soft and sticky. (MELLOW INTO LIQUID → something hard becomes soft and flows away.)
The girl's sadness began to melt as she felt her family's love and knelt beside them in gratitude.
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🎤Pronunciation
🌳Etymology
Origin
From Old English 'meltan,' derived from Proto-Germanic *meltanan, meaning to digest or soften. Related to Old High German 'smelzan' and ultimately connected to the concept of softening or dissolution.
Breakdown
melt (verb root) - a single morpheme with no productive affixes in its base form, though it can take inflectional endings like -s, -ed, -ing
🎵Rhyme
🔗Collocations
📝Examples
“My chocolate bar melted in my pocket and made a sweet mess.”
“The snowman melted so fast, it looked like it was having a bad hair day.”
“She melted the cheese for the perfect grilled sandwich.”
“His tough attitude melted when he saw the puppy.”
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