See melten in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"past",
"plural"
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},
{
"form": "melted",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "malte",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "melt",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "melte",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "meltyn",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "mealten",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Early-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "melltenn",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Early-Middle-English"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "verb",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "melten",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "melteth",
"2": "meltynge",
"3": "malt",
"4": "molten"
},
"expansion": "melten (third-person singular simple present melteth, present participle meltynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative malt, past participle molten)",
"name": "enm-verb"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "melt",
"2": "malt",
"3": "molt",
"3a": "melt",
"4": "molt",
"4a": "melt",
"c": "3",
"w": "ed",
"y": "0"
},
"name": "enm-conj-st"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To melt (change from solid to liquid):",
"To blend or fuse (of metal or glass)."
],
"links": [
[
"melt",
"melt"
],
[
"solid",
"solid#English"
],
[
"liquid",
"liquid#English"
],
[
"blend",
"blend"
],
[
"fuse",
"fuse"
],
[
"metal",
"metal#English"
],
[
"glass",
"glass#English"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To melt (change from solid to liquid):",
"To dissolve, disperse, or vanish."
],
"links": [
[
"melt",
"melt"
],
[
"solid",
"solid#English"
],
[
"liquid",
"liquid#English"
],
[
"dissolve",
"dissolve"
],
[
"disperse",
"disperse"
],
[
"vanish",
"vanish"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"To melt (change from solid to liquid):",
"(by extension) To dissolve, disperse, or vanish."
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To mollify; to repent or become caring:",
"To cause to repent or become caring."
],
"links": [
[
"mollify",
"mollify"
],
[
"repent",
"repent"
],
[
"caring",
"caring"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To mollify; to repent or become caring:",
"To weaken; to be sapped of strength."
],
"links": [
[
"mollify",
"mollify"
],
[
"repent",
"repent"
],
[
"caring",
"caring"
],
[
"sapped",
"sapped"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To decay; to become wasted or decomposed."
],
"links": [
[
"decay",
"decay"
],
[
"wasted",
"wasted"
],
[
"decomposed",
"decomposed"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To be heated (of meat)."
],
"links": [
[
"heated",
"heated"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) To be heated (of meat)."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɛltən/"
}
],
"word": "melten"
}
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