Synonyms for melting
melt·ing

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1. thaw, melt, thawing, meltingadjective

   the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid

   "the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster"; "the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours"

   Synonyms:
   thawing, warming, thaw, melt

   Antonyms:
   frozen

2. liquescent, meltingadjective

   becoming liquid

   Synonyms:
   liquescent

   Antonyms:
   frozen

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1. meltingadjective

   Synonyms:
   dissolving, thawing, affecting, touching

2. meltingnoun

   Synonyms:
   dissolution, liquefaction, fusion, thawing, inteneration, dissipation, colliquation

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1. List of paraphrases for "melting":

   fusion, merger, smelting, amalgamation, melt, merge, merging, snowmelt, thaw, thawing, source, smelter

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1. Thomas Slater:

   In the past decade, we've already seen that surface melting in Greenland has become both more severe and more erratic, as the atmosphere continues to warm over Greenland, events such as yesterday's extreme melting will become more frequent.

2. Milo Barham:

   The melting of ice sheets after Snowball Earth caused a dramatic rise in sea level, ultimately flooding the continents, driving a remarkable retreat of shorelines and the development of clearer ocean water, researchers have long been aware that the timing of Snowball Earth and the development of more complex life seem to have coincided, but no one has really thought about how the oceans being starved of sediment might have helped ancient organisms thrive in the oceans.

3. Marco Tedesco:

   A snowpack that might look clean to our eyes can be more effective in absorbing solar radiation than a dirty one, overall, what matters, it is the total amount of solar energy that the surface absorbs. This is the real driver of melting.

4. Diana Francis:

   Melting ice in the Arctic is reducing the temperature created between the polar region and mid latitudes and this makes the weather systems move slowly over our region, convection [ leading to storms ] now can occur over several days whereas before, without climate change, it would have occurred over several hours and moved on.

5. Ian Fenty:

   It's very rare anywhere on the planet to see 700 meters of no temperature variation, normally we find colder waters in the upper hundred meters or so, but right in front of the glacier it's warm all the way up, these warm waters now are able to be in direct contact with the ice over its entire face, supercharging the melting.