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[syn: melt, run, melt down]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
melt down
    v 1: 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, melt
         down]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "melt down":
   colliquate, concentrate, cut, decoagulate, decoct, defrost,
   deliquesce, dissolve, distill, essentialize, express, fluidify,
   fluidize, flux, fuse, hold in solution, infuse, leach, liquefy,
   liquesce, liquidize, lixiviate, melt, percolate, press out, refine,
   render, run, smelt, soak, solubilize, solve, steep, thaw, thin,
   unclot, unfreeze, wring, wring out