Past tense of melt
regular verb
The past tense of melt is melted. The past participle is also melted.
Forms of melt
| Base form (V1) | melt /mɛlt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | melted /ˈmɛltɪd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | melted /ˈmɛltɪd/ |
| Present participle | melting /ˈmɛltɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | melts |
Melted in a sentence
- I melted butter to make a cake.
- His troubles melted away.
- Other devices measure water flow in streams fed by melted ice.From the entry flow
- Drunken trees leaning in random directions are often found in spruce forests where discontinuous permafrost has melted.From the entry drunken trees
- The ice melted away and the channel opened.From the entry open
Meaning of melt
- verb To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
- verb To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
- verb To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
Questions about the past tense of melt
- What is the past tense of melt?
- The past tense of melt is melted.
- What is the past participle of melt?
- The past participle of melt is melted.
- Is melt a regular or irregular verb?
- Melt is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: melt (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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