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melting

/melt/US // mɛlt //UK // (mɛlt) //

融化,熔化,熔解,溶化

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
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    melt·ed, melt·ed or mol·ten, melt·ing.

    • : to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
    • : to become liquid; dissolve: Let the cough drop melt in your mouth.
    • : to pass, dwindle, or fade gradually: His fortune slowly melted away.
    • : to pass, change, or blend gradually: Night melted into day.
    • : to become softened in feeling by pity, sympathy, love, or the like: The tyrant's heart would not melt.
    • : Obsolete. to be subdued or overwhelmed by sorrow, dismay, etc.
v.有主动词 verb
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    melt·ed, melt·ed or mol·ten, melt·ing.

    • : to reduce to a liquid state by warmth or heat; fuse: Fire melts ice.
    • : to cause to pass away or fade.
    • : to cause to pass, change, or blend gradually.
    • : to soften in feeling, as a person or the heart.
n.名词 noun
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    • : the act or process of melting; state of being melted.
    • : something that is melted.
    • : a quantity melted at one time.
    • : a sandwich or other dish topped with melted cheese: a tuna melt.

Phrases

  • melt in one's mouth
  • butter wouldn't melt

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Alastair Sim had jowls like melting candle wax, a snarl like a cornered cat and eyes cold with contempt.

  • Idris Elba has, in the eyes of many, reached the melting point.

  • It's often said that America is a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities.

  • The Levant is already a far cry from the cosmopolitan melting pot it once was.

  • The glaciers are melting because snowfall is decreasing and temperatures are rising—bad news for wolverines.

  • All the lower sky was pink, melting imperceptibly into the still pale blue of day.

  • With a prickly heat suffusing my whole body and a melting sensation at the collar I struggled through the wretched lyric once.

  • This motion is favoured by the gradual though incomplete melting of the flakes as the heat penetrates the mass.

  • In a glacial district this snow mass above the melting line is called the névé.

  • There was still the same yearning gaze, the same melting tenderness, but there was something more.