| 单词 | melt |
| 释义 | melt (once / 202 pages) vn To melt means to fade away slowly and disappear, like a snowman in the middle of the Sahara. "I'm melting! I'm melting!" — Those are the feeble cries of ice cubes on a hot summer day and Wicked Witches doused with water by a meddling girl from Kansas. To melt a stick of butter into liquid form sounds like an excellent idea for your popcorn — but perhaps not for your diet. And when your puppy looks up at you with those big brown puppy eyes, your heart probably melts — even if he just ate your slippers. WORD FAMILYmelt: meltable, melted, melter, melting, melts+/melted: unmelted/melter: melters/melting: meltingly, meltings USAGE EXAMPLESHe used to doubt climate change was melting this huge Greenland glacier. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Roast, turning often, until the skins blacken and flake and the eggplants collapse and are meltingly tender, 10 to 15 minutes. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) Continue stirring until the cheese is completely melted. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1v 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper melt down, run bleed, run be diffused fuse make liquid or plastic by heating render, trymelt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities break up, dissolve, resolve cause to go into a solution 2v become or cause to become soft or liquid The sun melted the ice the ice cream melted The heat melted the wax Syn|Hypo|Hyper dethaw, dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw deliquesce melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air de-ice, defrost, deicemake or become free of frost or ice flux, liquefy, liquify become liquid or fluid when heated 3v become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk Syn|Hyper fade weaken become weaker 4v lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene Syn|Hyper meld blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix mix together different elements 5v become less intense and fade away gradually her resistance melted under his charm Syn|Hyper disappear, evaporate weaken become weaker 6v become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial Syn|Hyper mellow, mellow out mellow soften, make mellow change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 7n the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster Syn|Hyper melting, thaw, thawing heating, warming the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature phase change, phase transition, physical change, state changea change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition |
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