MEANING
To extract a metal from ore through heat and chemical reduction.
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Words that belong together
- smelt ore
- smelt iron
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The settlement smelted ore in a small furnace.
The workers smelted iron using a controlled blast.
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Word forms
- Base
- smelt
- Past tense
- smelted
- Past participle
- smelted
- Present participle
- smelting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- smelt
- Present continuous
- am/is/are smelting
- Present perfect
- have/has smelted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been smelting
- Past
- smelted
- Past continuous
- was/were smelting
- Past perfect
- had smelted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been smelting
- Future
- will smelt
- Future continuous
- will be smelting
- Future perfect
- will have smelted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been smelting
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: smelt; smelts; smelted; smelted; smelting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: smelts.
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