melting

adjectiveverbnouncommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈmɛltɪŋ//

Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.

adjective

1
Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
2
Given over to strong emotion; tender; aroused; emotional, tearful.
What guards the purity of melting maids, / In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades [...]?
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.

verb

1
Also a form of meltpresent participle and gerund of melt

noun

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
figurativeThe act of softening or mitigating.

Forms

plural: meltings
comparative: more melting
superlative: most melting

melt · To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid…meltdown · An act or process of melting.melted · Being in a liquid state as a result of melting.

melting · Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.

melvin · A wedgie performed from in front of the victim.Melvin · A surname from Old French.member · One who belongs to a group.

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