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melt away

melt away verb: to fade or wane.

Verb

melt away (third-person singular simple present melts away, present participle melting away, simple past and past participle melted away)

  1. (intransitive) To fade or wane
    • It came at last. The sky lightened, the mist melted away, and then a long, low, far-off streak of pale yellow light floated on the eastern horizon.1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VI

melt away meaning in Odia and Sanskrit

melt away in Odia

to melt away
ଗଳିବା gaḷibā

melt away in Sanskrit

to melt away, perish, wane
क्षरति kṣárati
to melt away, wane, perish
क्षर् kṣar

Forms of melt away

third-person singular presentmelts away
present participlemelting away
past participlemelted away
pastmelted away

Questions about melt away

What does melt away mean?
Melt away means to fade or wane.
What is melt away in Odia?
Melt away in Odia is ଗଳିବା (gaḷibā). See Melt away meaning in Odia.
What part of speech is melt away?
Melt away is a verb.
What is the past tense of melt away?
The past tense of melt away is melted away.

Words near melt away in the dictionary

  1. mels
  2. Melsetter
  3. Melson
  4. Melsonby
  5. melt
  6. melt away
  7. melt down
  8. melt in the mouth
  9. melt into
  10. melt out
  11. melt pond

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Adapted from Wiktionary: melt away (page history and authors); ଗଳିବା (Odia) (page history and authors); क्षरति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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