as in to crack
to yield to mental or emotional stress
rather than melt down, the team strengthened their resolve and ended up winning the game
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as in tailspin
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as in collapse
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Recent Examples of melt down
Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2025
Those pieces then get melted down and eventually combined with recycled bottle plastic to create new Repreve yarns.
—Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 11 Apr. 2025
Mae Anderson and Michael Liedtke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2025
His epic meltdown on Sunday was one of the most heartbreaking ever witnessed at Augusta National.
—Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2025
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Verb
The fat is then melted down, and any solid impurities are strained out of it.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2025
Those pieces then get melted down and eventually combined with recycled bottle plastic to create new Repreve yarns.
—Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
But Trump began his second term seemingly determined to impose the tariffs more broadly this time, triggering a meltdown in the market values of Apple and other technology powerhouses.
—Mae Anderson and Michael Liedtke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2025
His epic meltdown on Sunday was one of the most heartbreaking ever witnessed at Augusta National.
—Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melt down
Verb
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Short passwords — think six or eight characters — can be cracked in minutes by modern hacking tools.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Her case cracked the door open for other young talent to skip college entirely, but in reality, college soccer is still a key pipeline despite its changing landscape.—
Meg Linehan,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2025
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But when the dot-com bubble burst and the 9/11 attacks sent markets into a tailspin, her real estate business collapsed.—
Achy Obejas Aaron Wojack,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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Cheyenne accepts, but then loses the job when the current director recovers from a stroke, sending her into a tailspin.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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There are 1,600 years of history to discover in Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia, a spectacular megastructure that has survived the collapse of empires.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
3 May 2025
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Before the collapse of the Champlain Towers South Building in Surfside, the condo association had delayed some $15 million in repairs needed to address that building's structural damage.—
Greg Allen,
NPR,
3 May 2025
Noun
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Every so often, the E.R. is visited by rats, little symbols of disrepair and instigators of slapstick freak-outs.—
James Poniewozik,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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Enter another Jamie freak-out, which seems to come out of nowhere.—
Marah Eakin,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Former federal disaster response specialists and national environmental groups are concerned about the program office's ability to have the capacity to continue that mission and respond to emergencies like the Louisiana oil spill.—
Dan Ruetenik,
CBS News,
5 May 2025
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Inside, nine immersive galleries guide visitors through Belfast’s shipbuilding heritage, the grandeur of Titanic’s interiors, and the events leading up to the disaster, as well as the legacy that followed.—
David Nikel,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
Noun
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That ethical dodge — congratulating modern progress, ignoring this era’s nervous breakdown — is the basic, political, insensitive reason that contemporary Hollywood cannot create love stories.—
Armond White,
National Review,
25 Apr. 2025
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The tale of a narcissistic corporate executive (Dern) whose nervous breakdown yields a convenient spiritual awakening, the show positions its protagonist in the morally fraught role of a whistle-blower doing the right thing for selfish reasons.—
Charlie Campbell,
TIME,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Even though Houston proved capable of extending this series, Game 6 will be a bloodbath.—
Kelly Iko,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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But that bar is low: The first half of his initial term was a bloodbath, with record-high homicide rates (58.3 per 100,000 in 2021, and 58.4 in 2022).—
Stephen J. K. Walters,
Baltimore Sun,
30 Apr. 2025
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Are there really women out there who want Badgley to put on his Joe Goldberg cap and choke them?—
Judy Berman,
Time,
24 Apr. 2025
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Southern California has been choked by smog since the mass adoption of the automobile.—
Terry Castleman,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Melt down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melt%20down. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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