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 collapse
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Recent Examples of melt down
Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
Our job as parents is to communicate consistently, calmly, and clearly even when kids melt down or fight back.
—Kelsey Mora, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2025
Billy Perrigo, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
And too much information could tip her into a traumatic meltdown.
—Sean Williams, Outside, 27 Oct. 2025
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Verb
Stolen Louvre loot worth $102 million may be melted down.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
Our job as parents is to communicate consistently, calmly, and clearly even when kids melt down or fight back.
—Kelsey Mora, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
Robot meltdown — The LLMs also sometimes went haywire in unexpected ways.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
And too much information could tip her into a traumatic meltdown.
—Sean Williams, Outside, 27 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melt down
Verb
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Here was the first sign that Yorgos Lanthimos had cracked the code on Colin Farrell.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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The earth stretched flat in every direction, almost to the horizon—a pale, cracked crust, vaguely lunar.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The Vikes are in a tailspin after last week's blowout loss to the Chargers.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Oct. 2025
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The torrent of billion-dollar investment announcements related to artificial intelligence has raised fears that the economy is sitting on a bubble that, if popped, could send it into a tailspin.—
Rob Wile,
NBC news,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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One is if the Democratic turnout collapse that defined 2024 repeats itself—particularly in Passaic County, where anger over the Biden Administration’s handling of Gaza kept many Muslim voters home.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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By the early 2000s, overfishing was rampant, fishing became the most dangerous job in America and our oceans were on the brink of collapse.—
Amanda Leland,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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After Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary this summer, some high-end real-estate brokers confessed to having something of a freak-out.—
Matthew Sedacca,
Curbed,
30 Oct. 2025
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Ever since Bad Bunny was announced as the Super Bowl LX halftime headliner in September, there has been a far-right freak-out.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The floods have also left 11 people missing, inundated more than 116,000 houses and 5,000 hectares of crops, and damaged roads and railways, cutting off traffic and power in several areas, the government’s disaster agency said in a report.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
31 Oct. 2025
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Desmond McKenzie, deputy chair of Jamaica's disaster risk management council, declined to share how many people have died, although authorities separately told AP at least four deaths occurred in southwest Jamaica.—
Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Lane is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
31 Oct. 2025
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Boy Brian Wilson’s attempts to complete the album Smile in the aftermath of a nervous breakdown while dealing with schizophrenia.—
Richard Newby,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Oct. 2025
Verb
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During the previous school year, the boy strangled and choked a teacher and pulled up a female classmate’s dress and touched her inappropriately on the school playground, the lawsuit claims.—
Cindy Von Quednow,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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The figure of Achilles, a warrior who singlehandedly choked a river with dead enemies before taking on the river god himself, provided a model for Alexander the Great and persists in contemporary popular entertainment, political speech, and military culture in celebrations of shock and awe.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Racial and other demographic breakdowns of the 3,000 students retained were not immediately made available.—
Caroline Beck,
IndyStar,
5 Nov. 2025
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The Upper East Side had the highest total number of votes per neighborhood based on the Times breakdown at 90,390.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Melt down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melt%20down. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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