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Synonyms for melt
Synonyms for melt: run, thaw and fade. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for melt
Interchangeable with melt, one per sense
Audited under melt's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one melt carries in that sense.
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name melt as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- fadefade is a verb in the sense "become less clearly visible or distinguishable"
The first group is filed under melt's own senses. The second reaches melt from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
The candle wax began to melt in the heat.
The true synonym
run
Same sentence, swapped: The candle wax began to run in the heat.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- fade
- mellow
- cease
the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
The power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster.
The true synonym
thaw
Same sentence, swapped: The power failure caused a refrigerator thaw that was a disaster.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot melt is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- boiling
- freezing
- cease
Where melt turns up in the game
melt is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where melt is the trap
- warpverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is buckle, in the sense "to bend or twist out of a flat or true shape", and melt is on the board beside it.
- flickerverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is gutter, in the sense "to shine or burn with a wavering, unsteady light", and melt is one of the three tiles that lose.
- swirlverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is eddy, in the sense "to move in a twisting, circular pattern", with melt sitting one tile away.
Play melt
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so melt reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other change words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. melt carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.