From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Melt \Melt\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Melted} (obs.) p. p. {Molten}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Melting}.] [AS. meltan; akin to Gr. me'ldein, E. malt, and prob. to E. smelt, v. [root]108. Cf. {Smelt}, v., {Malt}, {Milt} the spleen.]
1. To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow.
2. Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
Thou would'st have . . . melted down thy youth. --Shak.
For pity melts the mind to love. --Dryden.
Syn: To liquefy; fuse; thaw; mollify; soften.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: changed from a solid to a liquid state; "rivers filled to overflowing by melted snow" [syn: {liquid}, {liquified}] [ant: {unmelted}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "melted": abject, apologetic, contrite, decoagulated, deliquescent, fused, fusible, humble, humbled, in solution, in suspension, liquefied, liquescent, meltable, molten, penitent, penitential, penitentiary, repentant, sheepish, softened, thawed, thermoplastic, touched, unclotted
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