Thesaurus results for MELTED DOWN

melted down

verb

past tense of melt down

as in cracked

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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Recent Examples of melted down The industry was already struggling with cost overruns when, in 1979, a reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania partially melted down and slammed the brakes on further expansion. —

IEEE Spectrum, 15 June 2026 OpenAI’s version has already melted down once and is structurally contested heading into an IPO. —

Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 1 June 2026 This is a rematch of the Patriots’ wild-card round win over the Chargers, when Justin Herbert melted down against New England’s defense. —

Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 14 May 2026 The internet melted down this week because Rodrigo chose to have a sense of fashion. —

Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2026 Few expected this outcome, since the ornate helmet in particular would have been virtually unsellable without being melted down. —

Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 23 Apr. 2026 Many original prints were later lost, particularly during World War I, when film materials were melted down for their silver and celluloid content. —

Ryan Brennan april 20, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2026 The former Exide Technologies plant in Vernon melted down pallets of lead-acid car batteries in blast furnaces for nearly a century, blanketing up to 10,000 nearby properties with toxic dust, according to state officials. —

Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2026 Experts feared it would be melted down for its gold. —

Ryan Brennan april 10, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for melted down

Verb

Dodging rockfall that would’ve cracked my low-hanging differential.

— Josh Rivera, USA Today, 21 June 2026
When Jonah was 3, sound asleep in his room at his older sister’s birthday party, bullets from an assault rifle cracked through the windows of Jamon’s house and left holes above his bed.

— Luca Evans, Denver Post, 21 June 2026

Definition of cracked

Verb

All of that oil stuck behind a barrage of missiles and sea lanes choked with mines led a number of respected oil analysts to predict that oil prices would surge as high as $150, or even $200 by the summer.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 25 June 2026
In recent days, the property remained largely fallow, other than the thick underbrush and countless weeds that choked the site, which is about one-third of an acre in size, this news organization’s direct observation of the property shows.

— George Avalos, Mercury News, 24 June 2026

Definition of choked

Verb

After the final whistle, Vozinha broke down in tears on the pitch.

— Olivia Shalhoup, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
Machado laid off a slider that broke down and out of the zone to get to 2-0 against right-hander Joe Ross and then hit a sinker in the heart of the zone on a line at 108 mph to left-center field, where it was caught by a man in a Padres jersey some 408 feet from home plate.

— Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2026