| liquescent | | |
| adj. | 1. liquescent, melting | becoming liquid. |
| ~ unfrozen | not frozen.; "unfrozen ground" |
| melting | | |
| n. (process) | 1. melt, melting, thaw, thawing | the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid.; "the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster"; "the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours" |
| ~ heating, warming | the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature. |
| ~ phase change, phase transition, physical change, state change | a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition. |
| melt | | |
| v. (change) | 1. melt, melt down, run | 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" |
| ~ fuse | make liquid or plastic by heating.; "The storm fused the electric mains" |
| ~ try, render | melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities.; "try the yak butter"; "render fat in a casserole" |
| ~ dissolve, break up, resolve | cause to go into a solution.; "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water" |
| ~ bleed, run | be diffused.; "These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run" |
| v. (change) | 2. dethaw, dissolve, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw | become or cause to become soft or liquid.; "The sun melted the ice"; "the ice thawed"; "the ice cream melted"; "The heat melted the wax"; "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase"; "dethaw the meat" |
| ~ deliquesce | melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.; "this type of salt deliquesces easily" |
| ~ de-ice, defrost, deice | make or become free of frost or ice.; "Defrost the car window" |
| ~ flux, liquify, liquefy | become liquid or fluid when heated.; "the frozen fat liquefied" |
| v. (change) | 3. mellow, mellow out, melt | become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial.; "With age, he mellowed" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ mellow | soften, make mellow.; "Age and experience mellowed him over the years" |
| v. (change) | 4. meld, melt | lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually.; "Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene" |
| ~ coalesce, conflate, fuse, immix, mix, commingle, merge, blend, flux, meld, combine | mix together different elements.; "The colors blend well" |
| v. (change) | 5. fade, melt | become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly.; "The scene begins to fade"; "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk" |
| ~ weaken | become weaker.; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days" |
| v. (change) | 6. disappear, evaporate, melt | become less intense and fade away gradually.; "her resistance melted under his charm"; "her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance" |
| ~ weaken | become weaker.; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days" |
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