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- Dictionarymelted/ˈmɛltɪd/
adjective
- 1. having become liquefied by heating: "asparagus with melted butter"
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adjective. uk / ˈmel.tɪd / us / ˈmel.tɪd / Add to word list. having turned soft or into a liquid: melted butter / chocolate / cheese. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Physics: the state of matter. absorbency. acidic. allotropic. compressible. crystalline. e-liquid. fluidity. gasses. impervious. polyunsaturated. powdered. powdery.
to turn from something solid into something soft or liquid, or to cause something to do this: The snow usually melts by mid March. Melt the chocolate slowly so that it doesn't burn. The meat's beautifully cooked - it melts in your mouth (= is so pleasantly soft that you do not need to chew it). Fewer examples.
1. : to become altered from a solid to a liquid state usually by heat. 2. a. : dissolve, disintegrate. the sugar melted in the coffee. b. : to disappear as if by dissolving. her anger melted at his kind words. 3. obsolete : to become subdued or crushed (as by sorrow) 4. : to become mild, tender, or gentle. 5.
n. 1. A melted solid; a fused mass. 2. The state of being melted. 3. a. The act or operation of melting. b. The quantity melted at a single operation or in one period.
Melt, dissolve, fuse, thaw imply reducing a solid substance to a liquid state. To melt is to bring a solid to a liquid condition by the agency of heat: to melt butter.
to turn from something solid into something soft or liquid, or to cause something to do this: The snow usually melts by mid March. Melt the chocolate slowly so that it doesn't burn. The meat's beautifully cooked - it melts in your mouth (= is so pleasantly soft that you do not need to chew it). Fewer examples.
Definitions of melted. adjective. changed from a solid to a liquid state. “rivers filled to overflowing by melted snow” synonyms: liquid, liquified. unfrozen. not frozen. dissolved. (of solid matter) reduced to a liquid form. fusible. capable of being melted and fused. liquefied, liquified, molten. reduced to liquid form by heating. thawed.
