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melting

verb , present participle of melt

Synonyms and Antonyms of melting

1 to cease to be visible

the fog soon melted away with the rising of the sun

Synonyms of melting

dematerializing, disappearing, dissolving, evanescing, evaporating, fading, fleeing, flying, sinking, vanishing

Words Related to melting

blanking (out), clearing, dispersing, dissipating, dissolving, drying up, dying (away or down or out)

blurring, dimming

Phrases Synonymous with melting

dropping out of sight

Near Antonyms of melting

arriving, breaking out, coming out, emerging, issuing, looming, showing up

Antonyms of melting

appearing, materializing

2 to go from a solid to a liquid state

a forgotten carton of ice cream was melting away on the counter

Synonyms of melting

deliquescing, fluxing, fusing, liquefying (also liquifying), running, thawing

Words Related to melting

founding, guttering, smelting, trying

dissolving, rendering

softening, thinning

Near Antonyms of melting

clotting, coagulating, congealing, gelling, jelling, jellying, thickening

Antonyms of melting

hardening, setting, solidifying

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