melted

adjsoftened

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Word Origin & History

Old English meltan "become liquid, consume by fire, burn up" (class III strong verb; past tense mealt, past participle molten), from Proto-Germanic *meltanan; fused with Old English gemæltan (Anglian), gemyltan (West Saxon) "make liquid," from Proto-Germanic *gamaltijanan (cf. Old Norse melta "to digest"), both from PIE *meldh-, (cf. Sanskrit mrduh "soft, mild," Greek meldein "to melt, make liquid," Latin mollis "soft, mild"), from root *mel- "soft," with derivatives referring to soft or softened (especially ground) materials (see mild). Figurative use by c.1200. Related: Melted; melting.

Of food, to melt in (one's) mouth is from 1690s. Melting pot is from 1540s; figurative use from 1855; popularized with reference to America by play "The Melting Pot" by Israel Zangwill (1908).

Example Sentences for melted

Twelve hours afterward the snow, three feet deep on a level, has melted.

It seemed to my sleepy eyes as if an angel had melted his own door through the wall!

Add the butter, and when it has melted remove from the heat.

The sight of three persons' eyes was melted and collected into that single one.

Then he melted the dust and poured the hot liquid into a mould the shape of a blade.

They thought themselves lucky then and melted it over into money.

Make a hole in the middle of it, and pour in the melted butter while hot.

Melted butter is the foundation of most of the common sauces.

Put the onions into the melted butter, and boil them up at once.

Chop the yolks of all, and the whites of two, and stir them into melted butter.

melted

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baked

fluid

liquid

sorry

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fluid

liquid

sorry

touched

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baked