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{
"term": "melt",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "melt",
"heSheIt": "melts"
},
"pastSimple": "melted",
"pastParticiple": "melted",
"ingForm": "melting"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to become or make something become liquid as a result of heating",
"sensetop": "melt something",
"labels": "(British English)(North American English)(British English)(North American English)(especially North American English)(British English)(British English)",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The snow showed no sign of melting."
},
{
"text": "melting ice"
},
{
"text": "The sun had melted the snow.",
"contextForm": "melt something"
},
{
"text": "boiled potatoes with melted butter"
},
{
"text": "melted cheese/chocolate/ice cream"
},
{
"text": "First, melt two ounces of butter."
},
{
"text": "The melting ice caps could provoke widespread flooding."
},
{
"text": "Add melted butter and season with salt and pepper."
},
{
"text": "These crystals have very high melting temperatures."
}
],
"topics": ["Weather", "Physics and chemistry"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to become or to make a feeling, an emotion, etc. become gentler and less strong",
"sensetop": "melt something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The tension in the room began to melt."
},
{
"text": "Her trusting smile melted his heart.",
"contextForm": "melt something"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to become extremely hot",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Today the temperature got up to 36 degrees and it felt like I was melting."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to say that somebody seems to be innocent, kind, etc. when they are not really",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to be soft and very good to eat",
"examples": [
{
"text": "They serve steaks that just melt in your mouth."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/melt/",
"audio": "me/melt/melt__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/melts/",
"audio": "me/melt/melts__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmeltɪd/",
"audio": "me/melt/melted__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmeltɪŋ/",
"audio": "me/melt/melting__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/melt/",
"audio": "me/melt/melt__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/melts/",
"audio": "me/melt/melts__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmeltɪd/",
"audio": "me/melt/melted__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmeltɪŋ/",
"audio": "me/melt/melting__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English meltan, mieltan, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse melta ‘to malt, digest’, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek meldein ‘to melt’, Latin mollis ‘soft’, also by malt."
}