melt
(intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
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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 su…
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...
Have you tried placing mould in warm water for a few seconds to slightly melt the outer layer of the jelly?
It's like the entire industry is staffed by empty, vapid, attention whores that melt when in the proximity of power and money.
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!!!
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(intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt.
“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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(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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(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.
“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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