Definitions for melts

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melts melt

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IPA: /mɛlt/

Melts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in melts (elmst).

Definitions for melts

noun

1. the act or process of melting; state of being melted.
2. something that is melted.
3. a quantity melted at one time.
4. a sandwich or other dish topped with melted cheese:
5. the spleen, especially that of a cow, pig, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to reduce to a liquid state by warmth or heat; fuse:
2. to cause to pass away or fade.
3. to cause to pass, change, or blend gradually.
4. to soften in feeling, as a person or the heart.

verb (used without object)

1. to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
2. to become liquid; dissolve:
3. to pass, dwindle, or fade gradually (often followed by away):
4. to pass, change, or blend gradually (often followed by into):
5. to become softened in feeling by pity, sympathy, love, or the like:
6. Obsolete. to be subdued or overwhelmed by sorrow, dismay, etc.

Origin of melts

before 900; Middle English melten, Old English meltan (intransitive), m(i)elten (transitive) to melt, digest; cognate with Old Norse melta to digest, Greek méldein to melt

Examples for melts

If the ice that froze up the spring of his love would but begin to melt!

melt a pound of butter by putting it into a skillet on hot coals.

Put some butter into a sauce-pan, set it on hot coals, and melt and skim it.

While the beans are cooling and drying, melt the butter in a saute pan over medium heat.

I'm fit to melt—there is no strength left in me; here, come and take the rod!'

melt butter and marshmallow in big stock pot then add puffed rice cereal.

Put the sugar to melt in the liquid, and let it set all night.

Friction between air and the weapon creates temperatures of up to 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit, hot enough to melt steel.

Combined, those give the planet a year-round surface temperature hot enough to melt lead.

Add chocolate and butter to the bowl and melt, stirring to combine.