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| Main Entry: |
melt
 [melt] 
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | liquefy; dissolve |
| Synonyms: | cook, deliquesce, diffuse, disappear, disintegrate, disperse, evanesce, evaporate, fade, flow, flux, fuse, go, heat, merge, pass away, render, run, smelt, soften, thaw, vanish, warm, waste away |
| Antonyms: | coagulate, condense, solidify |
| Main Entry: | molten |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | melted |
| Synonyms: | fused, glowing, igneous, liquefied, smelted |
| Main Entry: | ablate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wear away |
| Synonyms: | erode, evaporate, melt, vaporize |
Example Sentences
- The land's rise and fall over time, they say, can be attributed to variation in what may be a continuous flow of molten basalt.
- Pour some molten steel in there, let it cool, and you have an actual tiny key.
- They also show builders used molten metal to cast its hands and feet.
| Main Entry: | bake |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cook in oven |
| Synonyms: | heat, melt, scorch, simmer, stew, warm |
| Notes: | bake is the term used for cooking foods such as bread, potatoes, apples, etc. in dry heat in an oven, and roast refers to cooking meat in an oven or before a fire |
| Main Entry: | broil |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cook under direct heat |
| Synonyms: | burn, melt, roast, scorch, sear, swelter |
| Antonyms: | freeze |
| Main Entry: | burn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be on fire; set on fire |
| Synonyms: | bake, be ablaze, blaze, brand, broil, calcine, cauterize, char, combust, conflagrate, cook, cremate, enkindle, flame, flare, flash, flicker, glow, heat, ignite, incinerate, kindle, light, melt, parch, reduce to ashes, rekindle, roast, scald, scorch, sear, set a match to, singe, smoke, smolder, toast, torch, wither |
| Antonyms: | cool, extinguish, put out, quench, smother, wet |
| Main Entry: | cook |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prepare food, usually using heat |
| Synonyms: | French fry, bake, barbecue, blanch, boil, braise, brew, broil, brown, burn, coddle, curry, decoct, deep fry, devil, doctor*, escallop, fix, fricassee, fry, griddle, grill, heat, imbue, melt, microwave, mull, nuke, panfry, parboil, parch, percolate, poach, pressure-cook, reduce, roast, ruin*, sauté, scald, scorch, sear, seethe, simmer, sizzle, spoil*, steam, steep, stew, toast, warm up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disappear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | vanish; cease |
| Synonyms: | abandon, abscond, be done for, be gone, be lost, be no more, be swallowed up, cease to exist, clear, come to naught, decamp, dematerialize, depart, die, die out, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, drop out of sight, ebb, end, end gradually, escape, evanesce, evanish, evaporate, exit, expire, fade, fade away, flee, fly, go, go south, leave, leave no trace, melt, melt away, pass, pass away, perish, recede, retire, retreat, sink, take flight, vacate, vamoose, wane, withdraw |
| Antonyms: | appear, arrive, come in |
| Main Entry: | distort |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deform; falsify |
| Synonyms: | alter, angle, belie, bend, bias, buckle, change, collapse, color, con, contort, crush, curve, deceive, decline, deteriorate, deviate, disfigure, doctor*, fake, fudge, garble, gnarl, knot, lie, make out like, mangle, melt, misconstrue, misinterpret, misrepresent, misshape, pervert, phony up, put one on, sag, scam*, slant, slump, snow*, torture, trump up, twist, warp, whitewash, wind, wrench, writhe |
| Antonyms: | beautify, shape nicely, straight |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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