verb
- past tense and past participle of smelt; extracted metal from ore by heating
Usage: metallurgy
Examples
- The copper ore was smelted in the furnace.
- Iron has been smelted for thousands of years.
- The factory smelted aluminum from bauxite ore.
- Ancient civilizations smelted bronze from copper and tin.
- The metal was smelted at extremely high temperatures.
- They smelted the raw materials into pure silver.