Definition of Melt

v., melt·ed, melt·ing, melts. v.intr.

1. To be changed from a solid to a liquid state especially by the application of heat.
2. To dissolve: Sugar melts in water.
3. To disappear or vanish gradually as if by dissolving: The crowd melted away after the rally.
4. To pass or merge imperceptibly into something else: Sea melted into sky along the horizon.
5. To become softened in feeling: Our hearts melted at the child's tears.
6. Obsolete. To be overcome or crushed, as by grief, dismay, or fear.

v.tr.

1. To change (a solid) to a liquid state especially by the application of heat.
2. To dissolve: The tide melted our sand castle away.
3. To cause to disappear gradually; disperse.
4. To cause (units) to blend: “Here individuals of all races are melted into a new race of men” (Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur).
5. To soften (someone's feelings); make gentle or tender.

n.

1. A melted solid; a fused mass.
2. The state of being melted.
3. 1. The act or operation of melting.
   2. The quantity melted at a single operation or in one period.
4. A usually open sandwich topped with melted cheese: a tuna melt.