1
as in to disappear
to cease to be visible
the fog soon melted away with the rising of the sun
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2
as in to thaw
to go from a solid to a liquid state
a forgotten carton of ice cream was melting away on the counter
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Recent Examples of melt
If soft drink spills, melted ice cream, or cookie crumbs are not cleaned up, wasps will flock to eat it.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 5 Mar. 2026
The side of a neighboring building was severely damaged, and its siding melted off.
—Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
In addition to damaging your cookware, melted plastic residue can contaminate your food and pose a safety risk.
—Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 5 Mar. 2026
After all, it’s used to melt snow and ice in a city where snow has been known to fall since before electricity.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2026
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 5 Mar. 2026
The side of a neighboring building was severely damaged, and its siding melted off.
—Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
In addition to damaging your cookware, melted plastic residue can contaminate your food and pose a safety risk.
—Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 5 Mar. 2026
After all, it’s used to melt snow and ice in a city where snow has been known to fall since before electricity.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melt
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Nickelate thin films must be grown with atomic-level precision, otherwise their delicate electronic properties disappear.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Mar. 2026
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Your son, who has passed you and continued on, aptly makes his way through one of those ghost-tour groups and disappears from view.—
Addie Citchens,
New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2026
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In Florida, spring doesn’t arrive with daffodils pushing through thawing ground or the first rays of sun peeking through after a long winter.—
Skye Sherman,
Southern Living,
11 Mar. 2026
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With the weather finally thawed and kids out of school, spring and summer are the busiest seasons for homebuying.—
Becca Stanek,
TheWeek,
11 Mar. 2026
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Tourists have mostly vanished; there is no more jet fuel for the planes to take them home.—
Patrick Oppmann,
CNN Money,
7 Mar. 2026
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Two of her beloved horses vanished without a trace.—
Carmela Karcher,
CBS News,
7 Mar. 2026
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The bank’s most dramatic scenario is a three-month, full disruption to oil and liquefied natural gas flows.—
Yongchang Chin,
Fortune,
8 Mar. 2026
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Qatar, which halted its Ras Laffan liquefied natural gas plant this week following an Iranian drone attack, will be unable to restart its massive natural gas production until hostilities have completely ended, Kaabi told the Financial Times.—
Bloomberg Wire,
Dallas Morning News,
6 Mar. 2026
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Three days later, Litmus Test faded to third place in his first start of the year, the Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park in Arkansas.—
Jay Posner,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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What sympathy there may have been for a cornered, bruised Iranian regime among its neighbors has faded in the face of Tehran’s escalation.—
Ishaan Tharoor,
New Yorker,
6 Mar. 2026
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By night, the scene softens with storm lanterns lit by hotel staff, who also patrol the premises.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Mar. 2026
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To be more sensitive to modern audiences, O’Brien said that Howl’s revival would take fewer song requests while softening the onstage comedy bits, adding that its modern music and food menu of wings and flatbreads would also drive the bar’s success.—
Phillip Valys,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Mar. 2026
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Bones in her shoulder were dissolving, something called osteolysis.—
Scott Pelley,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2026
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Last Friday, Altman posted on X that OpenAI had reached an agreement with DOD just hours after news broke that Anthropic’s relationship with the administration would be dissolved.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
7 Mar. 2026
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The Fusion technology has its roots in the UltraFusion interconnect used to fuse two full CPU chips in the M-series Ultra lineup, but the purpose here is probably to make the chip fabrication process a bit more flexible.—
Brian Westover,
PC Magazine,
9 Mar. 2026
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The material was porous and crumbly, allaying fears that the fuel might’ve fused into a diamond-hard mass impenetrable even to drills.—
Yusuke Maekawa,
Bloomberg,
8 Mar. 2026
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“Melt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melt. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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