Melt
See 2d Milt.
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.
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.
To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.
To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth.
Hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear.
To lose distinct form or outline; to blend.
To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away.
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Melt Quotations
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
Gustave Flaubert
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Orison Swett Marden
Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
Buffalo Bill
To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
Susan Sontag
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
Walter Scott
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
Denis Diderot
Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?
Nikita Khrushchev
Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
Homer
It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
Andy Goldsworthy
I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.
Barry McGuire
Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then one morning I woke up and the melt had happened.
Suzanne Somers
My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.
Gloria Estefan
Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.
Alan Coren
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Saint Teresa
Take to every Gallon of Honey, three Gallons of water, and put them both together, and set them over so soft a fire, that you may endure to melt and break the honey with your hands.
Kenelm Digby
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
William Allingham
In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt.
Barbara Dale
It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.
Donald O'Connor
Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.
Frank Tipler
Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.
Paul Morand
She looked as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else.
Elsa Lanchester
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Melt Translations
melt in Danish is smelte
melt in Dutch is wegsmelten, dooien, ontdooien
melt in Finnish is sulattaa
melt in German is schmelzen
melt in Italian is sciogliere, fusione
melt in Latin is fervefacio, fundo
melt in Portuguese is derretimento
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