Change
Change verb - To make different in some way.
Melt
Melt verb - Become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Averted in the story "The Seeds of Death" where an Ice Warrior pulls a bunch of levers on a (very simple) control panel and then shoots it, so it'd melt and nobody could change the setting.
Source: Destruction Equals Off-Switch - You can also leave out the Mind magic and force others to change shape causing your enemy's intellect and self image to slowly melt away over the course of weeks to be replaced by an animal's.
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In the Justice League episode "The Enemy Below", the villain tried to melt the arctic ice cap to flood the world, even though since arctic ice is floating in water it wouldn't change sea levels much, if at all.
Source: Hollywood Science
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