To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow.
Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.
To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth.
Hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear.
To lose distinct form or outline; to blend.
To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. Albert Schweitzer
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe. Homer
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. Orison Swett Marden
To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. Susan Sontag
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. Saint Teresa of Avila
melt in Danish is smelte
melt in Dutch is wegsmelten, dooien, ontdooien
melt in Finnish is sulattaa
melt in German is schmelzen
melt in Italian is sciogliere, fusione
melt in Latin is fervefacio, fundo
melt in Portuguese is derretimento
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