Word Finder - melted

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To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.

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I melted butter to make a cake.

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To dissolve, disperse, vanish.

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His troubles melted away.

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To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.

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To be discouraged.

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To be emotionally softened or touched.

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She melted when she saw the romantic message in the Valentine's Day card.

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To be very hot and sweat profusely.

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I need shade! I'm melting!

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Being in a liquid state as a result of melting.

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Melted ice cream just isn't as much fun to eat.

Something melted within him at her words.

I can't wait to meet the guy who melted the Ice Queen.

She melted against him.

The chocolate gaze melted.

His look melted her anger.

However, unlike the highway, the snow here had not yet melted and Dean was forced to return to the main road at the first opportunity to cross back over the river.

The smile melted from her lips and her body chilled.

You melted for me last night, he reminded her.

The air was tinged with the scent of burning wood and melted metals, sulfur, and the facility's damp mustiness.

Bianca gave him a disapproving look that quickly melted into a smile.

The tension melted from Gabriel's shoulders as he sat on the settee across from Andre.

It was well-cooked, the cheese perfectly melted.

The pain melted into hot pleasure once again, and she closed her eyes as he fed long and hard.

He didn't falter, and when his lips met hers, she melted in his arms.

Alex shifted his attention to Gerald and his face melted into a smile.

The hard chocolate gaze melted.

It is for this reason that Siemens, Borchers and others substituted a hollow watercooled metal block for the carbon cathode upon which the melted metal rests while in the furnace.

The Arctic Sea presents a great contrast between the salinity of the surface of the ice-free Norwegian Sea with 35 to 35.4 and that of the Central Polar Basin, which is dominated by river water and melted ice, and has a salinity less than 25 per mille in most parts.

Toward morning all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of Napoleon's doctor, Larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence.

If anything, his anger melted into the contemplation of a man who had a new problem he intended to solve.

Obliviously unaware that half his thoughts this afternoon and evening were on her naked, Deidre melted into his arms the moment he touched her.

It melted in her mouth and ran down her throat, soothing it after her screams had run it raw.

Every time he touched her, her resolve melted.

Dean drove with even more caution now that the melted road sections were beginning to freeze anew, downshifting, allowing the reduced gear to slow the vehicle.

Edith at first looked shocked, but almost at once, her face melted to a resigned look—a condemned maiden mounting the guillotine steps, Joan of Arc as the match ignited her pyre.

As he peddled downhill toward Ridgway, he could see the east side of the valley, exposed to the southern sun, had melted nearly clear of snow while across the valley, draped in shadow most of the day, the western slope retained almost all its recent covering.

The survival instinct that had been fueling his resolve melted away and he did something he could not recall ever doing; he openly wept.

There were a dozen such places, and the snow had melted over part of the rocky areas, making tracking almost impossible.

The access pad appeared as though it had been shot with a laser gun; it was blackened and melted.

She gawked at Jonathan like a freshman cheerleader at a senior quarterback as he gave her a smile that melted her heart.

Still, they were blissfully marooned on their little island of snow for another day until the snow melted enough that Alex could get to work.

The sun came out and melted the snow enough that she felt it was safe to get out.

The temperature was going back down and the places that had melted were beginning to refreeze.

The snow had melted on the mountain trail, and the dry gray rocks provided sufficient traction for Ed's hooves as they climbed higher into the hills.

She melted in his arms, consumed by the raging fire of emotion his embrace never failed to ignite.

The sun had melted a thin layer of water over the ice in the water trough.

There she melted in his arms, giving herself to him as if it were the first time.

The warm month of June melted into the scalding month of July.

Gerald didn't respond for a moment, but when he did, his tone and expression would have melted steel.

A melted candle lay on the counter, a reminder of the storm, but the lights were working.

Xander knew the effect he had on women; they tended to be compelled towards him then melted when he touched them.

He couldn't decide if he'd be pleased or disappointed if a woman with an impenetrable mind melted at his feet like every other woman.

Everyone within a few meters of Xander melted.

About the same time Davy showed that two pieces of ice could be melted by rubbing them together in a vacuum, although everything surrounding them was at a temperature below the freezing point.

In obscure circumstances the enthusiastic hopes have melted away, the Davidic scion has disappeared, and Jerusalem has been the victim of another disaster.

So soon as the tallow is melted a quantity of weak lye is added, and the agitation of the injected steam causes the fat and lye to become intimately mixed and produces a milky emulsion.

The soap is melted by heat, the glycerin is stirred in, and the mixture strained and poured into forms, in which it hardens but slowly into a transparent mass.

His fears and prejudices melted away as he discerned that this was the very method needed for reaching the multitudes living in almost heathen darkness.

These icebergs float away, and are gradually melted in the sea, the temperature of which is thus lowered by cold stored up in the interior of Greenland.

This lake drained southward into the Gulf of Mexico via the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers, until the ice sheet which had prevented its natural drainage to the north had melted sufficiently to allow it to be drained off into Hudson Bay by way of the Nelson River.