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MELTED

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Changed from a solid to a liquid state

Example:

rivers filled to overflowing by melted snow

Synonyms:

liquid; liquified; melted

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

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 (no longer frozen solid)

Also:

unfrozen (not frozen)

Antonym:

unmelted (not melted)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb melt

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 Context examples: 

Tidal heating has likely melted the interior of Triton, producing the volcanoes, fractures and other geological features that Voyager saw on that bitterly cold, icy surface.

(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)

The two preparations are mixed, melted and annealed to form, among other species, heteroduplexes composed of one strand from each of the different sources.

(cDNA Subtraction, NCI Thesaurus/OSP)

The electrolytes are all melted to a liquid by temperatures between 700 and 800 degrees Celsius.

(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)

All by itself, Greenland could bump sea levels by 7 meters if its ice melted completely.

(The Hidden Meltdown of Greenland, NASA)

The researchers used satellite imagery to identify places where coastal ice sheets had melted, creating areas of open water called polynyas, which, they observed, occurred in the same places every year.

(Scientists describe how 'upside-down rivers' of warm water break Antarctica's ice shelf, Wikinews)

Here I heard myself apostrophised as a "hard little thing;" and it was added, "any other woman would have been melted to marrow at hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

So was the plum pudding, which melted in one's mouth, likewise the jellies, in which Amy reveled like a fly in a honeypot.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At the first coming of the dawn the horrid figures melted in the whirling mist and snow; the wreaths of transparent gloom moved away towards the castle, and were lost.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Here I was suddenly melted, and roared out, “No, you haven't, Mrs. Gummidge,” in great mental distress.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They had seldom seen him eat so heartily at any table but his own, and never before known him so little disconcerted by the melted butter's being oiled.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)