MELTDOWNS Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

meltdowns

noun

plural of meltdown

as in anxieties

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Noun

The Department of Pesticide Regulation in late 2025 unveiled searchable county and statewide data breakdowns for regulatory actions taken by agricultural commissioners from the start of 2020 through the end of June 2025.

— Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
At least a couple of the breakdowns last week came against tight end George Kittle, and the Dolphins face another great, experienced tight end in Travis Kelce, who had 101 yards and a touchdown last Sunday.

— David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of breakdowns

Noun

Molly saved herself in the showstopper with a gorgeous pink-and-orange cake that has the consistency of a fuzzy sweater, and there was nothing Shannon could have done that would have been worse than Danni’s two disasters.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026
Los Angeles County officials aim to break ground on the new Eaton Canyon Nature Center before 2028, with plans to construct a facility that can withstand the region’s changing climate and future disasters.

— Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of disasters

Noun

Still others worry that by raising alarms about a hypothetical extinction risk, some may be seeking to direct policymaking in a way that could benefit some companies over others.

— Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026
The blaze quickly grew to two alarms and spread to an adjacent apartment, two apartments above, and the cockloft between the top floor ceiling and the roof, FDNY officials said.

— Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of alarms

Noun

To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.

— Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
Indeed, conflict and calamities are major factors in financial repression.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of calamities

Noun

Tuesday’s scene was a mixture of confusion and chaos with first responders fanned out across two catastrophes and television news teams desperately trying to find out whether their journalists were safe.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Syria became one of the great human catastrophes of our time.

— Ayman M. Mohyeldin, Vanity Fair, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of catastrophes

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