English-French translations for melt

fondre
Il est ainsi inutile de fondre des pièces fréquemment et de les stocker. You do not have to melt coins down so often and mint new ones. Ce glacier est actuellement en train de fondre et il se déplace à une vitesse de deux mètres par heure - deux mètres par heure! This glacier is now melting and it is moving at two metres an hour - two metres an hour! Accumuler les dettes n'était pas considéré comme un problème puisqu'on avait le sentiment que la croissance économique les ferait fondre comme neige au soleil. Running up debts was not seen as a problem as it was felt that economic growth would melt them away like the sun melts the ice.
décongeler

Molten material, the product of melting
The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions
A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water
To change from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat
To dissolve, disperse, vanish
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
To be discouraged
To be very hot and sweat profusely

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