melt🔊

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

(figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.

(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.

To be discouraged.

(figurative) To be emotionally softened or touched.

(colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.

Molten material, the product of melting.

The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.

The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.

A melt sandwich.

(geology) Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified.

A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water. +

(derogatory) An idiot.

(derogatory) A centre-left or liberal person, when in opposition to a leftist; (especially) a critic of {{w|Jeremy Corbyn}} within the Labour Party.

Variant spelling of milt, the semen of a male fish, used as food.