Melted

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Melt \Melt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Melted} (obs.) p. p. {Molten};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Melting}.] [AS. meltan; akin to Gr.
     me`ldein, E. malt, and prob. to E. smelt, v. [root]108. Cf.
     {Smelt}, v., {Malt}, {Milt} the spleen.]
     1. To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to
        liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or


        snow.
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     2. Hence: 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.
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              Thou would'st have . . . melted down thy youth.
                                                    --Shak.
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              For pity melts the mind to love.      --Dryden.
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     Syn: To liquefy; fuse; thaw; mollify; soften.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  melted
       adj : changed from a solid to a liquid state; "rivers filled to
             overflowing by melted snow" [syn: {liquid}, {liquified}]
             [ant: {unmelted}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "melted":
     abject, apologetic, contrite, decoagulated, deliquescent, fused,
     fusible, humble, humbled, in solution, in suspension, liquefied,
     liquescent, meltable, molten, penitent, penitential, penitentiary,
     repentant, sheepish, softened, thawed, thermoplastic, touched,
     unclotted