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

Opened snack bags and faulty cardboard containers can lead to snacks spilling, melting, and leaving behind crumbs. — Jamie Weissman, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 July 2026

These were the players who decided that this time, in Miami, in the melting heat, would be different. — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 12 July 2026

Between October 2024 and April 2026, Kia North America's safety office identified 18 incidents involving either localized seat fires or melting of the seat motor, per recall documents. — ABC News, 10 July 2026

And though Prince Harry reunited with his father, King Charles, in the fall of 2025, the icy relationship between the brothers shows few signs of melting. — Emma Banks, InStyle, 7 July 2026

This heat drives more melting and more basaltic volcanism, a process that plays out not just in the minutes-to-hours timescale of the actual collision, but in tens or even hundreds of millions of years afterward. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 5 July 2026

But Al-Juburi doesn’t see the result as a melting pot, which burns away the unique flavors and characteristics of each ingredient. — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026

And that traditional core American values include being a welcoming melting pot and nation of immigrants who want to embrace the world. — Vahe Gregorian july 4, Kansas City Star, 4 July 2026

At the same time, her eyes were free of the ultimate Millennial marker, winged liner, and colored with a melting pot of brown, bronze and dusty gray shadow, visible in her waterline, too. — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 2 July 2026

Verb

Beyond the wildfires, throughout the trip, her counselor pointed out flooded rivers in Canada because of extreme heat melting snow runoff. — Ava Berger, NPR, 26 July 2026

The headwaters of this 1,400-mile long artery are in the Rocky Mountains, fed by melting snowpack. — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 22 July 2026

The authors warn the reservoirs will continue to deplete until this winter's snowpack begins melting in the spring. — ABC News, 22 July 2026

Matt is forced to flee the event once his face starts melting. — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 21 July 2026

Lastly, spring brings a different kind of atmosphere, with wildflowers beginning to bloom, rushing streams swelling with melting snow, and wildlife becoming more active after the colder months. — Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2026

Against this show, college dorm room posters of melting clocks feel utterly denuded, with regrets to the angsty teens pinning them up. — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 17 July 2026

Obvious examples include the drainage needed to handle typical precipitation or the temperatures a road material will need to tolerate without melting. — ArsTechnica, 17 July 2026

With less snow on the ground each year to deflect the sun, and the warming Arctic nearby, where rapidly melting sea ice leaves more ocean to absorb the sun’s energy, Europe is warming faster than any other region on earth. — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026