melted

3 definitions found

melted - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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melted - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  melted
      adj 1: changed from a solid to a liquid state; "rivers filled to
             overflowing by melted snow" [syn: melted, liquid,
             liquified] [ant: unmelted]

melted - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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