1
as in vanishing
to cease to be visible
the fog soon melted away with the rising of the sun
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2
as in thawing
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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as in evaporation
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Recent Examples of melting
Leia Mendoza, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
The city’s food scene is a melting pot of innovation and tradition, earning international attention from food lovers and the media alike.
—Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The soda ash and limestone also release carbon dioxide during melting.
—Aki Ishida, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
The melting of the vast polar ice sheets has become a byword for climate change; these giant frozen landscapes hold enough water to cause catastrophic sea level rise and are experiencing alarming changes as temperatures increase.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
If muscle-melting massages are more your style, the Maldives has some of the best in the world.
—Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025
There’s enough blame to fill what’s left of the world’s melting glaciers after this debacle of an opener in which the Dolphins were dominated, 33-8, by a mediocre Colts team and looks further from contention than any time this decade.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
The insight reportedly overturns a paradigm established nearly two centuries ago by popular British mathematician Lord Kelvin’s brother, James Thompson, who at the time proposed that pressure and friction contribute to ice melting alongside temperature.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
It is portrayed as a melting pot of cultures, but graffiti promoting the Algerian Liberation Front suggest the reality is not quite so harmonious.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
The style fused the sleek polish of a wet look with a deep, sculptural wave that framed the face before melting seamlessly into a bun.
—Essence, 14 Sep. 2025
According to Dusterhoft, Ross formed a plan that included internet searches for guns, silencers, sulfuric acid, battery acid, skin-melting acid and a search for news of a man killing his family on Christmas Day.
—Miguel Torres, AZCentral.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Slowly, like melting wax, his eyes slide down me, carefully taking me in from head to toe in my revealing uniform.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Conventional optical fibers are made by melting and stretching solid glass into thin strands.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
Next, unwind with a tension-melting back massage, easing both body and mind.
—Felicity Carter, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
In my quest to not turn into a rapidly melting human Popsicle every night, that sounded great to me!
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 2 Sep. 2025
Before that, cooling, whether for a dining room party or to power a global supply chain of meat and produce, relied on the rapid transport of melting ice.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
The only thing that had to be digitalized, was some of the melting goo and some of the flies jumping down.
—Leia Mendoza, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
The city’s food scene is a melting pot of innovation and tradition, earning international attention from food lovers and the media alike.
—Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The soda ash and limestone also release carbon dioxide during melting.
—Aki Ishida, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
The melting of the vast polar ice sheets has become a byword for climate change; these giant frozen landscapes hold enough water to cause catastrophic sea level rise and are experiencing alarming changes as temperatures increase.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
If muscle-melting massages are more your style, the Maldives has some of the best in the world.
—Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025
There’s enough blame to fill what’s left of the world’s melting glaciers after this debacle of an opener in which the Dolphins were dominated, 33-8, by a mediocre Colts team and looks further from contention than any time this decade.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
The insight reportedly overturns a paradigm established nearly two centuries ago by popular British mathematician Lord Kelvin’s brother, James Thompson, who at the time proposed that pressure and friction contribute to ice melting alongside temperature.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
It is portrayed as a melting pot of cultures, but graffiti promoting the Algerian Liberation Front suggest the reality is not quite so harmonious.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
If this conveyor belt of warm, salty water were disrupted — say, by an influx of freshwater from melting Greenland ice, or warmer ocean temperatures — the result could be catastrophic.
—Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
The style fused the sleek polish of a wet look with a deep, sculptural wave that framed the face before melting seamlessly into a bun.
—Essence, 14 Sep. 2025
According to Dusterhoft, Ross formed a plan that included internet searches for guns, silencers, sulfuric acid, battery acid, skin-melting acid and a search for news of a man killing his family on Christmas Day.
—Miguel Torres, AZCentral.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Slowly, like melting wax, his eyes slide down me, carefully taking me in from head to toe in my revealing uniform.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Conventional optical fibers are made by melting and stretching solid glass into thin strands.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
Next, unwind with a tension-melting back massage, easing both body and mind.
—Felicity Carter, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
In my quest to not turn into a rapidly melting human Popsicle every night, that sounded great to me!
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 2 Sep. 2025
Before that, cooling, whether for a dining room party or to power a global supply chain of meat and produce, relied on the rapid transport of melting ice.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for melting
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Demerzel shields the embryo with her body, and both are incinerated, vanishing in a white-hot instant, love and code consumed together.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Grey’s son, Loren Grey, restored his father’s original ending in the novel’s 1982 Pocket Books reprint, but the vanishing mythos remains intact, with the last of the tribe wistfully following Curtis’s Navajo into the temporal graveyard of the past.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Frozen raw pork was thawing on a kitchen sink drain board instead of under refrigeration.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
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Chess squares can also be frozen, though the custard may change texture slightly after thawing.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This translates into the evaporation of funding to rescue and assist trafficked scam workers.—
Christine Ro,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Plus, the side walls are slightly tapered to regulate heat and evaporation, which allows steam to escape more quickly and helps with flipping food in the pan.—
Izzy Baskette,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
Verb
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What has brought these species back while others are disappearing?—
Tom Langen,
The Conversation,
9 Sep. 2025
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Younger Americans are worried that Social Security is disappearing.—
Ryan Ermey,
CNBC,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Similarly, fellow country artists such as the Dixie Chicks, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill expressed their sorrow over his passing.—
Lynsey Eidell,
People.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Our hearts are heavy, as his passing leaves a grieving family and a country grappling with division.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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But with its novelty fading and political scrutiny mounting, its long-term future in America is far from secure.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
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The sturdy plastic housings resist fading and cracking and are brown in color to blend with most outdoor surfaces.—
Miles Walls,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Using cutting-edge metals for enhanced stiffness and heat dissipation, this most recent version represents a significant generational change.—
Matt Emma,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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There are built-in cooling fans as well as heat dissipation vents to keep everything cool to ensure stable performance even during long and intensive work sessions.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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In immersion cooling systems, servers are submerged in a fluid that carries heat away without evaporating water.—
Shaolei Ren,
IEEE Spectrum,
10 Sep. 2025
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Most of these changes were just caused by the water evaporating.—
Joel S. Levine,
The Conversation,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Melting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melting. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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