MOLTEN

molten, liquefied, liquified

(adjective) reduced to liquid form by heating; “a mass of molten rock”

MELT

fade, melt

(verb) become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly; “The scene begins to fade”; “The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk”

mellow, melt, mellow out

(verb) become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial; “With age, he mellowed”

dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw, dethaw, melt

(verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid; “The sun melted the ice”; “the ice thawed”; “the ice cream melted”; “The heat melted the wax”; “The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase”; “dethaw the meat”

melt, meld

(verb) lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually; “Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene”

melt, run, melt down

(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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

molten (comparative more molten, superlative most molten)

Melted.

Made from a melted substance.

Glowing red-hot.

Verb

molten

(archaic) past participle of melt

Anagrams

• Melton, loment, melton, tolmen

Source: Wiktionary


Mol"ten, a. Etym: [See Melt.]

1. Melted; being in a state of fusion, esp. when the liquid state is produced by a high degree of heat; as, molten iron.

2. Made by melting and casting the substance or metal of which the thing is formed; as, a molten image.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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