smelt
verb /smelt/
/smelt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they smelt | /smelt/ /smelt/ |
| he / she / it smelts | /smelts/ /smelts/ |
| past simple smelted | /ˈsmeltɪd/ /ˈsmeltɪd/ |
| past participle smelted | /ˈsmeltɪd/ /ˈsmeltɪd/ |
| -ing form smelting | /ˈsmeltɪŋ/ /ˈsmeltɪŋ/ |
- smelt something to heat and melt ore (= rock that contains metal) in order to obtain the metal it contains
- a method of smelting iron
Oxford Collocations DictionarySmelt is used with these nouns as the object:- iron
- ore
- past tense, past participle of smell
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German smelten; related to the verb melt.