MELTDOWNS Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

meltdowns

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plural of meltdown

as in anxieties

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Noun

As air conditioning breakdowns grow more common and repair companies face packed schedules, many homeowners are eager to get their cooling restored as quickly — and as inexpensively — as possible.

— Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Silkowitz can’t overcome D breakdowns The 26-year-old keeper, enjoying a breakout second NWSL season, has been the anchor for Bay FC.

— Jane Kenny, Mercury News, 30 July 2026

Definition of breakdowns

Noun

That was, frankly, ridiculous, and our coverage said as much, arguing that this deep dive into one of Hollywood’s most notorious genre disasters deserved a much wider release.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 30 July 2026
That official oversees preparations and response to public health emergencies and disasters and is involved in decisions about funding next-generation vaccines against pandemic flu or other infectious disease threats.

— CBS News, CBS News, 30 July 2026

Definition of disasters

Noun

On that end, Genevieve’s central pressure has crashed 64 millibars in under two days, falling from 993 mb as a tropical storm early Saturday to 929 mb at peak intensity – one of the steepest pressure collapses in the eastern Pacific in recent years.

— Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 27 July 2026
But after a string of epic collapses last year, LaFleur faces the challenge of winning back the trust of his own locker room.

— Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026

Definition of collapses

Noun

In an April TikTok video, Emilie Kiser encouraged viewers to implement measures like pool fences, door alarms and infant swimming resource lessons.

— Melina Khan, USA Today, 29 July 2026
Cockpit alarms blared as two Delta Air Lines jets narrowly avoided each other over Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport during a frightening near miss now under federal investigation.

— Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of alarms

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Your Night Manager and Something Very Bad characters both made big decisions that led to bloodbaths.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026
Naturally, the theft of the ghost shirt by the stooges in the employ of Roy Lee is accompanied by many deceased bodies — the first of the many bloodbaths in Americana, which has a distressingly expedient approach to on-screen carnage.

— Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025

Definition of bloodbaths

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Yoon drew extensively on these themes in his earlier works—most recently in the novel Run Me to Earth and the Story Prize–winning collection The Hive and the Honey—and his oeuvre depicts war’s psychological and material calamities.

— Rachel Vorona Cote, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
At the heart of the celebration is Kyoto’s Yasaka Shrine, a Shinto site whose principal deity has long been revered as a protector against calamities.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026

Definition of calamities

Noun

Of course, this growing mass constitutes a serious threat to the ocean ecosystem, not to mention the environmental catastrophes regularly caused by tanker accidents themselves.

— Alexander Klose, Scientific American, 24 July 2026
Insurance is a risk mitigation product, and insurance carriers may choose not to renew with you in case of sustained catastrophes.

— Kumar Rupesh, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026

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