Become or cause to become soft or liquid

Usage examples of melting.

The silkiness of melting chocolate on his tongue reminds him of the music of Angelo Badalamenti, and the music of Badalamenti brings to mind the waxy surface of a scarlet anthurium, and the anthurium sparks an intensely sensual recollection of the cool taste and crispness of cornichons, which for several seconds completely overwhelms the actual taste of the chocolate.

Both of them laughed as they were led to where a group of brahmacharyas sat amid a pile of freshly cut balsa wood logs, a pot of tar slowly melting over a cookfire, and vines and creepers they were weaving into ropes to use as lashings.

He cursed out loud, scolding himself for his inability to release the memories: the maelstrom of hypnagogic images superimposed upon all that he saw, the recollections of the accident tearing apart and blending back together again in a blurry mixture of lucid truth and deceptive mirage, the deafening blare of the horns in helpless warning, the walls of the chambers flashing in a fluctuating rhythm to the horns, between glowing red and pitch black, the faces burning and falling off everyone as the radiation surge hit, the crumbling support beams collapsing all about them, his own flesh melting, the blackness closing in.

But as he downed the last drops of his root beer, two circular pieces of ice melting on his tongue, Lo Manto knew he had fallen for a woman unlike any he had ever met in his life.

Where practicable, metals and alloys are best sampled by melting and granulating.

Rather, it was a lightning bolt blasting the moonscape, melting the regolith and its underlying rock, crushing the mantle, vaporizing everything within hundreds of kilometers of ground zero.

It had started existence as part of a glacierlike ice moon of the protoplanet Uranus, shattering, melting, and recrystallizing in the primeval eons of relentless bombardment.

The snow fell in flurries of heavy wet flakes, melting slightly during the day, to refreeze at night, making a thin crust of ice.

The surfaces themselves were pitted and rough from melting and refreezing unevenly over the years, and a few small tenacious plants had actually taken root on the ice.

To anyone else, it would be a boringly repetitious routine of heating and cooling, checking for boiling points and melting points, fractionating and filtering.

The waves of delight that ran through her, the melting joy that seemed to pull her into a whirlpool of repletion, it was all totally unknown and yet it felt as right and wonderful as the most familiar ritual.

The figure is taken from the process of melting down coins in order to restamp them.

It is not merely a melting and a restamping of old coin with a new superscription, a new sovereignty--a composite face instead of a personal likeness--it is the making, as I have said in other illustrations and metaphors, of a new race.

It was almost as if the cunning retrofit body was melting away and the real Wu beneath was emerging, moment by moment.

I heard a slight slishing sound and a thin waft of melting plastic reached me.