melt

Etymology
From, from a merger of (intransitive) and  (transitive), both meaning “to melt, digest,” from  and , from  and , both from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  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.
 * When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt.
 * 1)  To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
 * His troubles melted away.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  To be discouraged.
 * 3)  To be emotionally softened or touched.
 * She melted when she saw the romantic message in the Valentine's Day card.
 * My heart melted when I first heard the song.
 * 1)  To be very hot and sweat profusely.
 * 1)  To be emotionally softened or touched.
 * She melted when she saw the romantic message in the Valentine's Day card.
 * My heart melted when I first heard the song.
 * 1)  To be very hot and sweat profusely.

Synonyms

 * to found, to thaw

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: اِنْصَهَرَ, ذوب
 * Hijazi Arabic: ساح, انصهر
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Assamese: গলা
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: urtu
 * Bulgarian: топя се
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎬᎾᏬᏍᎦ
 * Chickasaw: bila
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 溶, 溶化
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: fandiĝi
 * Estonian: sulama
 * Even: ун-
 * Evenki: ун-
 * Finnish:
 * French: (1),  (2)
 * Galician: derreter,
 * Georgian: დნობა, ლღობა
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: τήκομαι
 * Hebrew: ניתך,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: bráðna
 * Ingrian: sullaa
 * Interlingua: funder
 * Irish: leáigh
 * Old Irish: legaid
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: توانەوە
 * Northern Kurdish: (intransitive),  (transitive)
 * Latgalian: laistīs,  laydinuot
 * Latin: liquescō
 * Latvian: kust,
 * Lithuanian: tirpti, leistis
 * Luxembourgish: schmëlzen, zerlafen
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: dewweb
 * Manchu: ᠸᡝᠮᠪᡳ
 * Manx: lheie
 * Middle English: melten, relenten
 * Mongolian:
 * Nahuatl: pati
 * Nanai: ун-
 * Neapolitan: squaglià
 * Norwegian:
 * Odia:
 * Old English: meltan
 * Ossetian: тайын
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:, stopnieć, , stopić się
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi:
 * Quechua: unuyay
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,  ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: leagh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Southern Altai: эриир
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tunawin
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu: కరిగించు
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:, tan chảy,
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: smelten


 * Assamese: গলোৱা
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Cherokee: ᎬᎾᏬᏗᎭ
 * Chickasaw: biliili
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 使融化, 使熔化
 * Czech:, roztávat,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: laten smelten
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: faire fondre
 * Georgian: დადნობა
 * German: schmelzen lassen
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τήκω
 * Greenlandic: aattoq
 * Hebrew: התיך,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: bræða
 * Ingrian: sulattaa
 * Irish: leáigh
 * Old Irish: legaid
 * Italian: liquare
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: liquefaciō, liquō
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: whakarewa
 * Middle English: melten, relenten
 * Nahuatl: patla
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: mieltan
 * Polish:, stapiać, roztapiać,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: leagh
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: matunaw, malusaw
 * Tamil:
 * Thai:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Middle English: melten


 * Finnish:
 * Middle English: melten


 * Finnish:
 * Polish: rozpływać się,

Noun

 * 1) Molten material, the product of melting.
 * 2) The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
 * 3) The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
 * 4) A melt sandwich.
 * 5)  Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified.
 * 6) A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
 * 7)  An idiot.
 * 8) Variant spelling of milt, the semen of a male fish, used as food.
 * 1) A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
 * 2)  An idiot.
 * 3) Variant spelling of milt, the semen of a male fish, used as food.
 * 1) Variant spelling of milt, the semen of a male fish, used as food.
 * 1) Variant spelling of milt, the semen of a male fish, used as food.
 * 1) Variant spelling of milt, the semen of a male fish, used as food.
 * 1) Variant spelling of milt, the semen of a male fish, used as food.
 * 1) Variant spelling of milt, the semen of a male fish, used as food.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: стопилка
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: გამდნარი
 * German:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: material fundido
 * Swedish:
 * West Frisian: smelten


 * Bulgarian: стапяне
 * Finnish: ;
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Irish: leá-uisce
 * Russian:
 * Welsh: dŵr toddi