| VERB | change | melt down, melt, run | reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating |
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| Meaning | Reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "melt down gold" | |
| Synonyms | melt, run | |
| Narrower | fuse | make liquid or plastic by heating |
| try, render | melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities | |
| Broader | dissolve, resolve, break up | Cause to go into a solution |
| Similar to | run, bleed | Be diffused |
| Spanish | derretirse, derretir, deshacerse, fundir | |
| Catalan | desfer-se, fondre | |
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