Fire
Fire verb - To cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force.
Melt
Melt verb - To cease to be visible.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- And then there's Billy-Jay Clarke's death in which he suffers a power malfunction, causing his eyes to catch fire and melt out of their sockets...
Source: Body Horror / Web Original - And in another when a peek into the future reveals robots that are so advanced they can even cry... except they're not waterproof and the tears make their heads catch fire and melt down.
-
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) has the cutesy singing puppets that greet the guests catch fire and melt... And Violet Beauregarde being all floppy and boneless as they leave the factory is straight out of The Exorcist. Shiver.
Source: Family-Unfriendly Violence
Cite this Source
Melt and Fire. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fire/melt
Fire & Melt. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/fire/melt>.
Melt or Fire. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/fire/melt.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "fire" and "melt" have occurred on timeline