melt
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(verb) lose its distinct outline or shape; "Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene" |
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Related Words: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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(verb) reduce from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating; "melt butter"; "melt down gold" |
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Synonyms: melt down, run |
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Related Words: break up, dissolve, fuse, render, try |
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(verb) grow (more) mellow; "With age, he mellowed" |
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Synonyms: mellow |
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Related Words: soften |
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(noun) the process of heating to change something from a solid to a liquid; "they welcomed the spring thaw" |
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Synonyms: melting, thaw, thawing |
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Related Words: heating, phase change, phase transition, state change, warming |
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(verb) cause to thaw and become soft or liquid again; "The sub melted the ice" |
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Synonyms: thaw, unfreeze, unthaw |
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Related Words: defrost, deice, liquefy, liquify |
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