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Antonyms for melt away
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : melt |
Phonetic Transcription : mɛlt |
- accept
- accumulate
- advance
- appear
- arrive
- assemble
- be born
- be willing
- bear
- begin
- bloom
- brighten
- build
- coagulate
- collect
- color
- come
- come in
- commence
- concentrate
- continue
- create
- deny
- develop
- enhance
- enlarge
- enter
- expand
- extend
- face
- fail
- fall behind
- fight
- flourish
- forge
- forward
- free
- garner
- gather
- get
- go up
- grow
- hoard
- improve
- increase
- integrate
- keep
- live
- lose
- marry
- meet
- prolong
- put together
- raise
- reach
- receive
- recover
- refuse
- remain
- resolve
- rise
- save
- sharpen
- solidify
- start
- stay
- strengthen
- take
- unite
- unmix
- use
- veto
- wait
- win
Definition of melt away
Origin :- Old English meltan "become liquid, consume by fire, burn up" (class III strong verb; past tense mealt, past participle molten), from Proto-Germanic *meltanan; fused with Old English gemæltan (Anglian), gemyltan (West Saxon) "make liquid," from Proto-Germanic *gamaltijanan (cf. Old Norse melta "to digest"), both from PIE *meldh-, (cf. Sanskrit mrduh "soft, mild," Greek meldein "to melt, make liquid," Latin mollis "soft, mild"), from root *mel- "soft," with derivatives referring to soft or softened (especially ground) materials (see mild). Figurative use by c.1200. Related: Melted; melting.
- Of food, to melt in (one's) mouth is from 1690s. Melting pot is from 1540s; figurative use from 1855; popularized with reference to America by play "The Melting Pot" by Israel Zangwill (1908).
- As in pass : verb cease
- As in deliquesce : verb melt
- As in die : verb wither, dwindle
- As in disappear : verb vanish; cease
- As in dissipate : verb disappear
- As in dissolve : verb disappear, disintegrate
- As in fade : verb dwindle, die out
- I did not awake; things did not melt away in a mist before my eyes.
- Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill
- Just as they seemed now about to melt away to urgent tasks, he called them back.
- Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
- Its edges seemed to melt away in the flight of the water-dust.
- Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
- Paul promised, and all the estrangement seemed to melt away.
- Extract from : « Despair's Last Journey » by David Christie Murray
- Get the money from Major Ponsford and melt away inconspicuous into the brush.
- Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
- To the surprise of the officers and of the Governor, the crowd began to melt away.
- Extract from : « Half a Hero » by Anthony Hope
- At her death it was divided, and among so many that it seemed to melt away.
- Extract from : « Grandmother Dear » by Mrs. Molesworth
- His reserve seemed to melt away the moment he was on his own soil.
- Extract from : « Tancred » by Benjamin Disraeli
- The line of officers dissolved, and the spectators began to melt away.
- Extract from : « The Red Acorn » by John McElroy
- Mammy says I can't eat it, and it will all melt away if I keep it.
- Extract from : « Jack and Jill » by Louisa May Alcott
Synonyms for melt away
- abandon
- abate
- abscond
- attenuate
- bate
- be done for
- be gone
- be lost
- be no more
- be swallowed up
- blow over
- break down
- break into pieces
- break up
- cash in
- cease to exist
- clear
- close
- come to naught
- crumble
- decamp
- decay
- decease
- decline
- decompose
- degenerate
- deliquesce
- dematerialize
- demise
- depart
- deteriorate
- die
- die away
- die on vine
- die out
- diffuse
- dilapidate
- dim
- diminish
- disappear
- disband
- discontinue
- dispel
- disperse
- dissipate
- dissolve
- drive away
- droop
- drop
- drop out of sight
- dwindle
- ease off
- ebb
- end
- end gradually
- escape
- etiolate
- evanesce
- evanish
- evaporate
- exit
- expire
- fade
- fade away
- fade out
- fag out
- fail
- fall
- fizzle out
- flag
- flee
- flux
- fly
- fold
- go
- go bad
- go downhill
- go south
- halt
- hush
- languish
- lapse
- leave
- leave no trace
- lessen
- let up
- liquefy
- lose power
- melt
- melt away
- moderate
- molder
- pass
- pass away
- perish
- peter out
- poop out
- quiet
- rankle
- rarefy
- recede
- retire
- retreat
- retrograde
- rot
- run down
- run dry
- run low
- run out
- scatter
- separate
- shrivel
- sink
- slack off
- slacken
- spread
- stop
- subside
- succumb
- take flight
- taper
- terminate
- thaw
- thin
- tire
- tucker out
- unmake
- vacate
- vamoose
- vanish
- wane
- waste away
- weaken
- wear away
- wilt
- withdraw
- wither
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