melt into
phrasal verb
melted into; melting into; melts into
: to become difficult or impossible to see by changing into or becoming combined with (something else)
The colors in the painting melt into one another.
Her frown melted into a smile.
She melted into the crowd.
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In Pecos, a West Texas oil-field town dotted with man camps, equipment yards, and the occasional roofless adobe structure melting into the scrub, packs of stray dogs congregated by the gas stations and the elementary schools.
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Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
Twenty yards melting into history, Martin tumbled forward and rose grinning, his team’s fake punt gamble striking gold.
—Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Fellow Saturnian moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa — both thought to host oceans — are covered with a network of cracks and crevasses in their surface, signs that their volumes changed as ice melted into water.
—Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Ahava’s foot cream is rich yet instantly melts into skin.
—Mary Honkus, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2025
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Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
Twenty yards melting into history, Martin tumbled forward and rose grinning, his team’s fake punt gamble striking gold.
—Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Fellow Saturnian moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa — both thought to host oceans — are covered with a network of cracks and crevasses in their surface, signs that their volumes changed as ice melted into water.
—Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Ahava’s foot cream is rich yet instantly melts into skin.
—Mary Honkus, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Melt into.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/melt%20into. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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