meltverb
uk/melt/us/melt/melt verb (BECOME LIQUID)
B2 [ I or T ] to turn from something solid into something soft or liquid, or to cause something to do this:
The snow usually melts by mid March.
Melt the chocolate slowly so that it doesn't burn.
The meat's beautifully cooked - it melts in your mouth (= is so pleasantly soft that you do not need to chew it).
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- When the sun came out, the ice began to melt.
- The heat had melted the plastic tablecloth.
- Melt the chocolate over a pan of water.
- Pour in the melted butter.
- All the snow melts into the river.
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Physical & chemical processes
- addition reaction
- adiabatic
- adsorb
- advection
- alpha decay
- condensation
- degradable
- diffraction
- dissolve
- exothermic reaction
- impregnate
- processus
- redox
- refraction
- rehydrate
- saponification
- scald
- secretion
- suction
- vaporize
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melt verb (FEEL LOVE)
[ I ] to start to feel love or sympathy, especially after feeling angry:
He only has to look at her, and she melts.
He'd been going to refuse, but his heart melted when he saw the children's faces.
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Calming and relaxing
- assuage
- balls-to-the-wall
- bask
- bread
- bread and circuses idiom
- calm
- chill
- humour
- lie down
- lighten sth up
- lighten up
- lull
- lull sb into sth
- relaxation
- settle
- simmer down
- slow down
- soften
- steady
- take/need a cold shower idiom
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Phrasal verb(s)
melt away
melt sth down
melt (away) into sth
meltnoun [ C ]
uk/melt/us/melt/mainly USa sandwich containing melted cheese:
a tuna melt
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Sandwiches & snacks
- BLT
- butty
- canapé
- club sandwich
- corn chips
- crisp
- finger chip
- gorp
- hero
- hoagie
- jam sandwich
- open sandwich
- open-faced sandwich
- popcorn
- pork scratchings
- potato chip
- submarine sandwich
- toasty
- tortilla chip
- wrap
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