melt away
Disappear like ice
To melt away is to disappear gradually, like ice or snow turning to water and vanishing.
The phrase usually describes things that dissolve or fade without dramatic departure: Her anger melted away when she saw his face.
Crowds melt away, tensions melt away, savings melt away.
The image suggests something solid becoming liquid and slipping from view.
Cease to be visible
- evaporateTransition to gaseous state
- dissipateGradually fade away
- fadeLose intensity gradually
- evanesceDisappear by degrees
dematerialize · dissolve · disperse · scatter · thin out · clear · lift · recede
To make smaller
- dwindleDecrease gradually over time
- waneDecrease gradually
- ebbGradual retreat seaward
- subsideDecrease in intensity
taper · lessen · decrease · shrink · decline · fade out · peter out · weaken
Pressure, mental or vocal
- tensionStretched or strained state
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
- worryTroubled mental state
- fearEmotional response to threat
anger · resistance · inhibition · doubt · concern · unease · apprehension · nervousness
vanish
Cease to be visible
evanesce · dematerialize · dissolve · disperse · scatter · thin out · clear · lift · recede · retreat
dissolve
Disperse into liquid
liquify · defrost · warm · heat · puddle · drip · seep · run · trickle · flow
diminish
To make smaller
subside · taper · lessen · decrease · shrink · decline · fade out · peter out · weaken · abate
stress
Pressure, mental or vocal
fear · anger · resistance · inhibition · doubt · concern · unease · apprehension · nervousness · dread
- temperature idiomscold shoulder, hot head, in hot water, cold feet, hot under the collar
- diminishingabate, decrease, diminish, dwindle, ebb
- disappearingvanish, fade, disappear, vanishing, evaporate
- escapeescape, flee, flight, breakout, evasion
- drifting awayfade, float, glide, wander, slip
- vanishingdisappearance, vanish, vanishing, disappear, fading