melt

melt [ melt ] verb **

▸ 1 become liquid

▸ 2 disappear

▸ 3 become kinder

▸ 4 gradually combine

▸ 5 relax against

▸ + PHRASES

1. ) transitive to change a solid substance into a liquid:

Melt the butter in a small saucepan.

a ) intransitive to be changed from a solid substance into a liquid:

Climate change is causing the polar ice cap to melt.

2. ) melt or melt away intransitive to disappear, usually gradually:

My fears melted when I saw his kind expression.

melt into: He seemed to melt into the darkness.

3. ) transitive to make someone kinder and more sympathetic:

melt someone's heart: She gave him a smile that melted his heart.

a ) intransitive to become kinder and more sympathetic:

All she has to do is smile at him and he just melts.

4. ) intransitive melt into to gradually change or combine, so that you cannot see any difference between things:

The reds and golds melted into each other as the sun sank.

5. ) intransitive if you melt into or against someone, you relax as they hold you close in a romantic way

melt in your mouth

if food melts in your mouth, it becomes soft in your mouth and tastes very good

=> BUTTER1

,melt a`way phrasal verb intransitive

same as MELT 2:

I suddenly felt sorry for him and my anger melted away.

melt away into: The lioness and her cubs melted away into the jungle.

,melt `down phrasal verb transitive

to heat a metal until it becomes liquid, especially in order to make something new from it