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as in disappears
to cease to be visible
the fog soon melted away with the rising of the sun
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as in thaws
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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Recent Examples of melts
For cans, bottles, and jars, this Otstar tool features a unique six-in-one design that melts away any frustration from stubborn canned and jarred goods.
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Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 21 Jan. 2026
Greenland’s strategic importance has increased as climate change melts Arctic ice, opening shorter shipping routes to Asia and raising interest in the island’s untapped reserves of critical minerals used in advanced technologies.
—Nik Popli, Time, 14 Jan. 2026
Even something as innocent as icicles can grow and damage your gutters with their weight or pry under your shingles and retreat into the attic, where the ice often melts to cause more damage in its water form.
—Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 12 Dec. 2025
In fact, once these co-ops are legalized, the individual market likely melts away, and everyone in America would gain the benefits that normally accrue to the group market.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2025
Inside the head, there’s a heating unit that melts the polymer.
—Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2025
Seeing the two of them together honestly melts my heart every day.
—Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
But actually being here, that stuff melts away.
—AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
And Lloyd brings a stiff upper lip that melts away to secret tenderness and fear to Celeste, who is not only navigating the realities of being the only Black woman in the group, but also returning home to take care of her ailing mother.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 21 Jan. 2026
Greenland’s strategic importance has increased as climate change melts Arctic ice, opening shorter shipping routes to Asia and raising interest in the island’s untapped reserves of critical minerals used in advanced technologies.
—Nik Popli, Time, 14 Jan. 2026
Even something as innocent as icicles can grow and damage your gutters with their weight or pry under your shingles and retreat into the attic, where the ice often melts to cause more damage in its water form.
—Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 12 Dec. 2025
In fact, once these co-ops are legalized, the individual market likely melts away, and everyone in America would gain the benefits that normally accrue to the group market.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2025
Inside the head, there’s a heating unit that melts the polymer.
—Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2025
Seeing the two of them together honestly melts my heart every day.
—Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
But actually being here, that stuff melts away.
—AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
And Lloyd brings a stiff upper lip that melts away to secret tenderness and fear to Celeste, who is not only navigating the realities of being the only Black woman in the group, but also returning home to take care of her ailing mother.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for melts
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In Peacock’s All Her Fault, a nanny from a rough background (Sophia Lillis) disappears with her rich employers’ little boy.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
30 Jan. 2026
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Polar bears in Svalbard are getting fatter, even as sea ice disappears.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Historically, Lake Erie freezes and thaws the quickest due to its shallow depth, the shallowest among the Great Lakes.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Ben-Adir and Morgan bring a raw and layered energy to the dynamic between their characters, and while the relationship between them thaws and complicates along a very predictable trajectory, progressive brain afflictions don’t exactly lend themselves to novelty or surprises.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
25 Jan. 2026
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Set at the height of the Arab Spring in 2011, the play examines a Middle Eastern Studies department in London thrown into crisis when a young Syrian blogger vanishes without a trace.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2026
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Even worse, amid the endless barrage of newness, our tolerance for sitting with work that may surprise or challenge us, confound and move us, weakens—or vanishes entirely.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2026
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The Environmental Protection Agency describes Cs-137 as a flexible, soft, and silvery-white metal that liquifies near room temperature.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
21 Aug. 2025
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These are all weapons specifically designed to annihilate outsiders trying to get inside the cities, weapons meant to cause the most pain for the amusement of the insiders (think a napalm bomb ornately decorated in the shape of a cone, which liquifies outsiders in seconds).—
Rafael Motamayor,
Vulture,
7 Aug. 2025
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That relatively minor problem fades into the background when he’s suddenly called back to his hometown to raise an estranged teenage daughter (Hannah Elise Adolfsen Fjeldbraaten) who doesn’t want to know him.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
30 Jan. 2026
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For most people, the effect is mild and fades as your body processes the caffeine.—
Brandi Jones,
Verywell Health,
30 Jan. 2026
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Chatting with a winemaker over a hip-hop set dissolves the hierarchy.—
Jonathan Kleeman,
Rolling Stone,
28 Jan. 2026
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Saturn asks for accountability, while Neptune dissolves the boundaries between the physical and the spiritual.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
27 Jan. 2026
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The formula includes hyaluronic acid and vitamin E, giving it a soothing, balm-like feel that softens lips overnight.—
Symiah Dorsey,
Southern Living,
28 Jan. 2026
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The suppleness of the band softens Williams’ tales of despair, transforming them into songs of solace, not outrage.—
Stephen Thomas Erlewine,
Pitchfork,
26 Jan. 2026
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This architecture fuses the battery and processing units through entanglement, creating a unified quantum link in which power and logic coexist.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Jan. 2026
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One of hip-hop's highest charting stars of 2025, BigXthaPlug, fuses rap and country.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA Today,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Melts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melts. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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