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MELT DOWN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating

Example:

The wax melted in the sun

Synonyms:

melt; melt down; run

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "melt down" is one way to...):

break up; dissolve; resolve (cause to go into a solution)

Verb group:

bleed; run (be diffused)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "melt down"):

fuse (make liquid or plastic by heating)

render; try (melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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