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Melting

adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
  2. 2
    Given over to strong emotion; tender; aroused; emotional, tearful.

    "What guards the purity of melting maids, / In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades [...]?"

  3. 3
    That causes one to melt with emotion; able to make others feel tender and emotional.

    "And he, Allada Khan, had decided that the child was not unlike himself - an unaggressive nose, and intelligent forehead, eyes both lively and melting."

Adjective
  1. 1
    becoming liquid wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.

    "Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything."

  2. 2
    the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid wordnet
  3. 3
    The act of softening or mitigating. figuratively
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of melt form-of, gerund, participle, present

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