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mol·ten

 (mōl′tən)
adj.
1. Made liquid by heat; melted: molten lead.
2. Made by melting and casting in a mold.
3. Brilliantly glowing, from or as if from intense heat: "A huge red bed of coals blazed and quivered with molten fury" (Richard Wright).
v. Archaic
A past participle of melt.
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molten

(ˈməʊltən)
adj
1. liquefied; melted: molten lead.
2. made by having been melted: molten casts.
vb
the past participle of melt
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mol•ten

(ˈmoʊl tn)

v.
1. a pp. of melt 1 .
adj.
2. liquefied by heat; being in a state of fusion.
3. produced by melting and casting.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.molten - reduced to liquid form by heatingmolten - reduced to liquid form by heating; "a mass of molten rock"
liquified, melted, liquid - changed from a solid to a liquid state; "rivers filled to overflowing by melted snow"
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molten

adjective melted, soft, flowing, liquid, fluid, liquefied The molten metal is poured into the mould.
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Translations
مَصْهور، مُنْصَهِر
roztavený
megolvadtolvadt
bræddur
išlydytasišsilydęs
izkausētskausēts
roztavený
erimiş

molten

[ˈməʊltən] ADJfundido, derretido; [lava] → líquido
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

molten

[ˈməʊltən] adj [rock, metal, glass] → fondu(e)
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

molten

adjgeschmolzen; glass, lavaflüssig
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

molten

[ˈməʊltn] adj (metal) → fuso/a; (lava) → allo stato liquido
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

molten

(məultən) adjective
(of a solid) in a liquid state, having been melted. molten rock.
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References in classic literature ?
So long before being forwarded to Tampa Town, the iron ore, molten in the great furnaces of Coldspring, and brought into contact with coal and silicium heated to a high temperature, was carburized and transformed into cast iron.
Her beautiful hair gleamed like molten gold in the warm firelight.
The sea was as a crucible of molten gold, that bubblingly leaps with light and heat.
The eye, dazzled as if it was leaning over a bath of molten silver, turned from it involuntarily; but the oblong form of the orb was quite clear.
But ye know also that my happiness is heavy, and not like a fluid wave of water: it presseth me and will not leave me, and is like molten pitch."--
In front of them the Lys rolled its waters like a river of molten tin; while on the other side was a black mass of trees, profiled on a stormy sky, invaded by large coppery clouds which created a sort of twilight amid the night.
Pierced to its poisoned hilt, And as molten lead were the tears we shed
Burning with white-hot anger was the High Priestess, her heart a seething, molten mass of hatred for Tarzan of the Apes.
You are my prisoners, and I will hurl you all into my underground dungeons, where the volcanic fires glow and the molten lava flows in every direction, and the air is hotter than blue blazes."
Molten lead and iron boiled in the marble basin of the fountain; the water ran dry; the extinguisher tops of the towers vanished like ice before the heat, and trickled down into four rugged wells of flame.
It must be, if the nebular hypothesis has any truth, older than our world; and long before this earth ceased to be molten, life upon its surface must have begun its course.
His eyes were full of tears, which seemed like drops of molten lead.