melt away
— phrasal verb with melt uk/melt/us/melt/verb
to disappear slowly:
As the police sirens were heard, the crowd started to melt away.
If a strong feeling melts away, you feel it less strongly and it disappears:
Her anger melted away when she read the letter.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Appearing & disappearing
- act
- bubble up
- come up
- conjure
- creep
- disappear off the face of the earth idiom
- do a disappearing/vanishing act idiom
- drain
- emerge
- erupt
- evaporate
- face
- form
- manifestation
- melt
- pop
- puff
- pull
- pull sth up
- wither
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Becoming and making less strong