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unmelt

unmelt verb: to undergo the process of melting in reverse.

Verb

unmelt (third-person singular simple present unmelts, present participle unmelting, simple past and past participle unmelted)

  1. (intransitive) To undergo the process of melting in reverse.
    • Eggs break, but do not unbreak; candles melt, but they don't unmelt; memories are of the past, never of the future; […]2008, Arieh Ben-Naim, Entropy Demystified, page 208
    • A snowflake does not unmelt.2002, Dale Bick Carlson, Kishore Khairnar, In and Out of Your Mind: Teen Science: Human Bites, page 76

Forms of unmelt

third-person singular presentunmelts
present participleunmelting
past participleunmelted
pastunmelted

Origin of unmelt

From un- + melt.

Questions about unmelt

What does unmelt mean?
Unmelt means to undergo the process of melting in reverse.
What part of speech is unmelt?
Unmelt is a verb.
What is the past tense of unmelt?
The past tense of unmelt is unmelted.

Words near unmelt in the dictionary

  1. unmelodiously
  2. unmelodiousness
  3. unmelodized
  4. unmelodramatic
  5. unmelodramatically
  6. unmelt
  7. unmeltability
  8. unmeltable
  9. unmeltableness
  10. unmeltably
  11. unmelted

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