Ang kahulugan ng diksyunaryo ng salitang "pagtunaw" ay ang proseso ng pagbabago mula sa solid tungo sa likidong estado sa pamamagitan ng paggamit ng init. Maaari rin itong tumukoy sa proseso ng pagiging mas malambing, banayad, o nakikiramay, gaya ng sa "kanyang puso ay natutunaw sa habag." Bukod pa rito, ang "natutunaw" ay maaaring tumukoy sa isang pakiramdam ng init o pagmamahal, tulad ng sa "nagbahagi ang mag-asawa ng nakakatunaw na tingin."
1. One minute the fairies were cavorting carelessly, the next they had vanished from view, melting into the trees beyond.
2. The summer, so newly arrived, was blazingly hot, and even at night she felt more like a melting candle than a person.
3. The sight of him on his knees before me had me melting into him.
4. The moonlight now obscured by clouds and the only source of light in the room, the candle on the bedside table, was melting fast.
5. The remnants of melting snow were the only reminder of the storm from last night.
6. She was a cold, hard baby that had had me completely snowed but the heat was on and the icy mask was melting.
7. I shoved a roll in my mouth, the buttery, spongy goodness melting in my mouth.
8. The plasma smothered the tank, melting it on contact until it was a jagged sphere the size of a handball in less than a second.
9. He could feel his skin charring black and melting off his body in gobs, but even as it did, the symbiote channeled the stolen life force of other sapiens to repair it, healing him almost immediately.
10. Days had been melting into each other so much now that she was losing more time than she was able to track.