melt

🇺🇸 /melt/ 🇬🇧 /melt/
Frequency
Difficulty
Tags TOP3000Oxford3000CEFR-B2
verb
B2

to turn from solid to liquid when heated

The ice cream will melt if you leave it in the sun.

R

to become or make feelings less strong

Her kind words made his anger melt away.

R

to feel very hot

I started to melt in the summer heat.

translation

v. to turn from solid to liquid when heated; to become or make feelings less strong; to feel very hot

Word Forms

3rd Present melts
Past melted
Perfect melted
Progressive melting