{
    "term": "melt",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "melt",
            "heSheIt": "melts"
        },
        "pastSimple": "melted",
        "pastParticiple": "melted",
        "ingForm": "melting"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to become or make something become liquid as a result of heating",
            "sensetop": "melt something",
            "labels": "(British English)(North American English)(British English)(North American English)(especially North American English)(British English)(British English)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The snow showed no sign of melting."
                },
                {
                    "text": "melting ice"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The sun had melted the snow.",
                    "contextForm": "melt something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "boiled potatoes with melted butter"
                },
                {
                    "text": "melted cheese/chocolate/ice cream"
                },
                {
                    "text": "First, melt two ounces of butter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The melting ice caps could provoke widespread flooding."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Add melted butter and season with salt and pepper."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These crystals have very high melting temperatures."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Weather", "Physics and chemistry"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to become or to make a feeling, an emotion, etc. become gentler and less strong",
            "sensetop": "melt something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The tension in the room began to melt."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her trusting smile melted his heart.",
                    "contextForm": "melt something"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to become extremely hot",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Today the temperature got up to 36 degrees and it felt like I was melting."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that somebody seems to be innocent, kind, etc. when they are not really",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be soft and very good to eat",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They serve steaks that just melt in your mouth."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/melt/",
                "audio": "me/melt/melt__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/melts/",
                "audio": "me/melt/melts__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmeltɪd/",
                "audio": "me/melt/melted__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmeltɪŋ/",
                "audio": "me/melt/melting__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/melt/",
                "audio": "me/melt/melt__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/melts/",
                "audio": "me/melt/melts__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmeltɪd/",
                "audio": "me/melt/melted__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmeltɪŋ/",
                "audio": "me/melt/melting__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English meltan, mieltan, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse melta ‘to malt, digest’, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek meldein ‘to melt’, Latin mollis ‘soft’, also by malt."
}