to melt away

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DEFINITION

In North American English, this phrasal verb typically means:

• to slowly disappear until it is completely gone (e.g. something frozen (standard), emotion (literary), group of people (literary), etc.)

EXAMPLES

• STANDARD: “The snowstorm last week was horrible! In just one day we got three feet of snow! Since then we have had positive temperatures, and all the snow has been melting away.”

• LITERARY: “Her father finds it very difficult to forgive, so it takes a long time for his anger to melt away.”

• LITERARY: “Our parties typically last until the early hours of the morning. People will not start melting away until around 3:00 AM.”

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