| 单词 | to melt up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto melt up to melt up transitive. = to melt down at sense 3c. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > heat > melt yeteOE wella1250 melt1535 temper1535 to melt downa1586 conflate1664 lump1797 sweat1883 to melt up1888 1648 J. Mayne Amorous Warre iii. vi. 41 The King is Just, Sir, and allowes us pay, Which you melt up by th'way. 1786 T. Jefferson in Papers (1954) X. 54 Let them melt up their eagles & add the mass to the distributable fund that their descendants may have no temptation to hang them in their button holes. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xxxvi. 255 We melted it up and made a solid brick of it by pouring it into an iron brick-mould. 1888 Antiquary Dec. 238 Church bells shared the general fate of other church-furniture, and hundreds were sold and melted up. 1932 E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost viii. 47 Old cans—fifty thousand of which have been melted up. 1997 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 20 Aug. b7 A car in that shape would be squeezed down and melted up in America. < as lemmas |
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