melted

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
melted
    adj 1: changed from a solid to a liquid state; "rivers filled to
           overflowing by melted snow" [syn: {melted}, {liquid},
           {liquified}] [ant: {unmelted}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Melt \Melt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Melted} (obs.) p. p. {Molten};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Melting}.] [AS. meltan; akin to Gr.
   me`ldein, E. malt, and prob. to E. smelt, v. [root]108. Cf.
   {Smelt}, v., {Malt}, {Milt} the spleen.]
   1. 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.
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   2. 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.
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            Thou would'st have . . . melted down thy youth.
                                                  --Shak.
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            For pity melts the mind to love.      --Dryden.
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   Syn: To liquefy; fuse; thaw; mollify; soften.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "melted":
      abject, apologetic, contrite, decoagulated, deliquescent, fused,
      fusible, humble, humbled, in solution, in suspension, liquefied,
      liquescent, meltable, molten, penitent, penitential, penitentiary,
      repentant, sheepish, softened, thawed, thermoplastic, touched,
      unclotted

    

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