MELTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does melted mean? 

• MELTED (adjective)
  The adjective MELTED has 1 sense:

1. changed from a solid to a liquid state

  Familiarity information: MELTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MELTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Changed from a solid to a liquid state

Synonyms:

liquid; liquified; melted

Context example:

rivers filled to overflowing by melted snow

Similar:

dissolved ((of solid matter) reduced to a liquid form)

fusible (capable of being melted and fused)

liquefied; liquified; molten (reduced to liquid form by heating)

thawed (no longer frozen solid)

Also:

unfrozen (not frozen)

Antonym:

unmelted (not melted)

 Context examples 

Subsequently, around 17,000 to 13,000 years ago, after the Last Glacial Maximum, the reef suffered another two substantial death events, this time caused by rapid sea-level rise as the ice sheets melted.

(Major study reveals Great Barrier Reef’s 30,000-year fight for survival, University of Granada)

Then the servant led her away; but his heart melted when Snowdrop begged him to spare her life, and he said, “I will not hurt you, thou pretty child.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"Yes," she answered, "I melted her with a bucket of water."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

It's big enough to have contained 14 billion tons of ice, and most of that ice melted over the last three years.

(Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay, NASA)

If the ice sheet in the Aurora Basin melted, global sea levels would rise more than 3-5 meters (10-15 feet).

(Massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet has history of instability, National Science Foundatio)

But you have taken some pains to bore the head of it and pour melted lead into the hole so as to make it a formidable weapon.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The snow had melted under the rain, and only the hilltops showed white.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It was a fine, clear, January day, wet under foot where the frost had melted, but cloudless overhead; and the Regent’s Park was full of winter chirrupings and sweet with spring odours.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A process that forms a solid dosage unit by pouring or casting a melted agent into a prefabricated form.

(Molded Formulation Process, NCI Thesaurus)

The study focuses on thermokarst lakes, which occur as permafrost thaws and creates surface depressions that fill with melted fresh water, converting what was previously frozen land into lakes.

(Certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they release, NSF)