melt down

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verb

reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- melt butter
- melt down gold
- The wax melted in the sun
• Syn:
melt, run
• Derivationally related forms:
meltable (for: melt), melt (for: melt), melting (for: melt)
• Hypernyms:
dissolve, resolve, break up
• Hyponyms:
fuse, try, render
• Verb Group:
run, bleed
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something