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

All remain family-run and deliver spice levels bordering on face-melting. — Ellen Fort, Bon Appetit Magazine, 31 July 2026

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

Verb

Her aunt gave her a warm piece with margarine melting at the center. — Rachel Yoder, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2026

The Springfield Sliders became the Lucky Horseshoes in 2022, swapping out their Abraham Lincoln logo for a horseshoe swinging a french fry bat, complete with a drip of melting cheese. — Kendra Nordin Beato, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2026

As the oceans absorb much of this excess heat, warmer seawater expands and takes up more space, while melting glaciers and ice sheets add even more water. — Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026

The manufacturer has received 555 customer reports of the products melting, sparking and smoking, resulting in 27 fires and 15 burn or electrical shock injuries, the agency said. — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 31 July 2026

Powerful lasers needed to generate flight-level electricity caused small receivers to overheat rapidly, destroying their efficiency and melting components before usable energy could be delivered. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 July 2026

The combination of sharp Cheddar and mozzarella provides bite while melting smoothly. — Torie Cox, Southern Living, 27 July 2026

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