Synonyms of melting

melting 1 of 2

noun

as in evaporation

Related Words

• evaporation
• passing
• fading
• vanishing
• dissipation
• dissolution
• withdrawal
• departing
• disappearance
• departure
• exiting
• retirement
• parting
• going
• leaving
• quitting
• fadeaway
• retreat
• decamping
• exit
• egress
• decampment
• evacuation
• farewell
• exodus
• leave-taking
• emigration
• clearing out

Dissimilar Words

• coming
• appearance
• arrival
• approach
• advent
• entrance
• beginning
• start
• incoming
• onset
• morning
• birth
• dawn
• commencement
• genesis
• ingress
• debut
• inception
• dawning

melting

2 of 2

verb

present participle of melt

1

as in vanishing

to cease to be visible

the fog soon melted away with the rising of the sun

Synonyms & Similar Words

• vanishing
• disappearing
• fading
• evaporating
• flying
• dissolving
• fleeing
• dissipating
• sinking
• blurring
• dematerializing
• dropping out of sight
• evanescing
• dispersing
• dying (away or down or out)
• drying up
• dimming
• clearing
• blanking (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• appearing
• emerging
• arriving
• issuing
• coming out
• looming
• materializing
• showing up
• breaking out

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• thawing
• fusing
• liquefying
• softening
• dissolving
• fluxing
• running
• deliquescing
• smelting
• trying
• rendering
• thinning
• founding
• guttering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• hardening
• solidifying
• setting
• thickening
• coagulating
• congealing
• clotting
• gelling
• jellying
• jelling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of melting

Noun

The quicker melting changes the usual flow of water through valleys and into the lake, compounding the challenges. — Silvia Console Battilana, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Somehow, though, the melting down of that possibility made our own world seem smaller. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Oct. 2026

Its retreat has altered the glacier’s geometry and relationship with the seafloor, meaning that simply reducing ocean melting may not restore its earlier state on century-long timescales. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026

It’s created this amazing melting pot that really sets us apart from every other state, and it’s truly woven into the depths of Texas culture. — Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Wendi Weston, Sacramento County program coordinator for Master Food Preservers, said cultural and local education are core aspects of the group’s work, as California’s diverse population brings a melting pot of cuisines with it. — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 11 Oct. 2026

What’s less normal is how barren Colorado’s mountain peaks got this summer, with some melting completely. — Katie Langford, Denver Post, 1 Oct. 2026

Subterranean effects reached 35 km (almost 22 miles) down, and included the melting an immense amount of rock. — Elizabeth Rayne, ArsTechnica, 30 Sep. 2026

This melting pot approach came to the life in the collection, which centered on sexy sandals and eye-catching details, from bows to jewelry. — Katie Abel, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026

Verb

As temperatures warm, more of Northern California’s water is set to arrive as rain instead of snow, with water running downstream instead of melting slowly into reservoirs as a stable water supply. — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026

The Upper Basin, which includes Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, has tended to be more resilient as its groundwater benefits from melting snow coursing down the Rocky Mountains. — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026

Importantly, the zero-melting scenario is an extreme modeling experiment, not a realistic prediction. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026

Which wet hole is the way out — and which leads to a pool of skin-melting digestive acid? — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Chuuraa Evgenia Arbugaeva (UK 2026, 18 min) A Sakha scientist journeys into Siberia’s melting permafrost, where the past emerges alongside ancestral beliefs. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026

For example, greenhouse gas emissions from melting permafrost, wildfires, or other natural sources, which are all triggered by the temperatures associated with global warming, could essentially become a cycle that fuels itself. — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

These extremes include soaring greenhouse gas concentrations, melting sea ice and sea-level rise—driven largely by human activities. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2026

In the process, Hall, Woodford, and other scholars helped breathe new life into the ideas of economics giant John Maynard Keynes, whose intellectual legacy, for a time, seemed in danger of melting away. — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 13 Oct. 2026