‘Hurry up and eat your ice cream cone; it’s starting to ____!’

verb

1. To become altered from a solid to a liquid state usually by heat
2. Dissolve, disintegrate

   "the sugar melted in the coffee"

3. To disappear as if by dissolving

   "her anger melted at his kind words"

4. To become subdued or crushed (as by sorrow)
5. To become mild, tender, or gentle
6. To lose outline or distinctness blend
7. To reduce from a solid to a liquid state usually by heat
8. To cause to disappear or disperse
9. To make tender or gentle soften

noun

1. Material in the molten state
2. The mass melted at a single operation or the quantity melted during a specified period
3. The action or process of melting or the period during which it occurs

   "the spring melt"

4. The condition of being melted
5. A sandwich with melted cheese

   "a tuna melt"

noun

1. Spleen

noun

1. The sperm-containing fluid of a male fish

verb

1. To suffer a meltdown collapse

idiom

1. To taste delicious and feel soft or become soft when put in one's mouth

   "chocolate candies that melt in your mouth"

phrasal verb

1. To become difficult or impossible to see by changing into or becoming combined with (something else)

   "The colors in the painting melt into one another."

idiom

1. To fill someone with compassion, sympathy, etc.

   "It would have melted your heart to see her lying in that hospital bed."

noun

1. A fast-drying nonvolatile adhesive applied hot in the molten state

idiom

1. Used to say that a person who appears to be innocent, sincere, or kind is really not