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melt

(intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.

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#1·Apr 27, 2026UK

(intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.

When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt.
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  • “Good news: I found my dollar store hair straightener that is quite possibly old enough to make an account here if it was alive! Its for crafting :) Bad news: the curtains I'm turning into pants dont melt so making sure these things don't fray to death is gonna be harder.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “It's like the entire industry is staffed by empty, vapid, attention whores that melt when in the proximity of power and money.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Given it was for high-powered FM broadcast (I guess) then it would have to be RG213 or better as the smaller diameter cable would melt, short circuit and blow ya transmitter up!!!”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “one day my brain will melt and i will love it”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “💦 it prefers beautiful shores. with cells similar to water molecules, it could melt in water.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#2·Apr 27, 2026UK

(ambitransitive, figurative) 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.

His troubles melted away.
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#3·Apr 27, 2026UK

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

I melted butter to make a cake.
Origin: From , from a merger of (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both meaning “to melt, digest,” from and *maltijan, from and *maltijaną, both from . Cognate with. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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  • “That sounds like it could get warm enough to melt the snow from the Wasatch Mountain ski areas. The "inversion" is gonna be lit, y'all! 👍 slcgreenblog.slc.gov/2025/12/19/i...”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Have you tried placing mould in warm water for a few seconds to slightly melt the outer layer of the jelly?”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “...Cautious, like crossing a wintry stream, Attentive, like one ready for the unexpected Gracious, as one who pays a visit; Yielding, like ice beginning to melt, Genuine, like a piece of uncarved wood, Open-minded, like a valley, And mixing freely, like murky water. Lao-Tze”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “At work, exhausted, and all I can think about is getting fucked until my brain starts to melt.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Specifically, the US military's AN-M14 TH3 incendiary grenade burns at temperatures around \(4,000^{\circ}\text{F}\) (\(2,200^{\circ}\text{C}+\)), hot enough to melt through steel, armor plate, and engine blocks”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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