The process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid:
— The power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster.

synonyms: melting, thaw, thawing.

Dutch: smelten
Polish: topnienie, topienie się, roztapianie się

Reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating:
— Melt butter.
— Melt down gold.
— The wax melted in the sun.

synonyms: melt down, run.

Roget 333: be fluid etc. adj.; flow etc. (water in motion) 348; liquefy, melt, condense etc. 335.   

Roget 335: render liquid etc. 333; liquefy, run; deliquesce; melt etc. (heat) 384; solve; dissolve, resolve; liquate^†; hold in solution; condense, precipitate, rain.    ... show more

Dutch: smelten

Become or cause to become soft or liquid:
— The sun melted the ice.
— The ice cream melted.
— The heat melted the wax.

synonyms: dethaw, dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw.

Roget 914: pity; have pity, show pity, take pity etc. n.; commiserate, compassionate; condole etc. 915; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of.    forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis [Lat.], give a coup de gr=ace, put out of one's misery.    raise pity, excite pity etc. n.; touch, soften; melt, melt the heart; propitiate, disarm.    ask for mercy etc. v.; supplicate etc. (request) 765; cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel; deprecate.    ... show more

Roget 384: heat, warm, chafe, stive^†, foment; make hot etc. 382; sun oneself, sunbathe.    go up in flames, burn to the ground (flame) 382.    fire; set fire to, set on fire; kindle, enkindle, light, ignite, strike a light; apply the match to, apply the torch to; rekindle, relume^†; fan the flame, add fuel to the flame; poke the fire, stir the fire, blow the fire; make a bonfire of.    melt, thaw, fuse; liquefy etc. 335.    burn, inflame, roast, toast, fry, grill, singe, parch, bake, torrefy^†, scorch; brand, cauterize, sear, burn in; corrode, char, calcine, incinerate; smelt, scorify^†; reduce to ashes; burn to a cinder; commit to the flames, consign to the flames.    boil, digest, stew, cook, seethe, scald, parboil, simmer; do to rags.    take fire, catch fire; blaze etc. (flame) 382.    ... show more

Dutch: ontdooien, dooien

Become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial.

synonyms: mellow, mellow out.

Roget 144: be converted into; become, get, wax; come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop into; turn out, lapse, shift; run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as; melt, grow, come round to, mature, mellow; assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of; illapse^†; begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change.    convert into, resolve into; make, render; mold, form etc. 240; remodel, new model, refound^†, reform, reorganize; assimilate to, bring to, reduce to.    ... show more

Lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually:
— Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene.

synonym: meld.

Dutch: samensmelten, versmelten

Become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly:
— The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk.

synonym: fade.

Dutch: doezelen, vervagen

Become less intense and fade away gradually:
— Her resistance melted under his charm.

synonyms: disappear, evaporate.

Dutch: afsmelten, versmelten, wegsmelten