Thesaurus results for MELTING DOWN

melting down

verb

present participle of melt down

as in losing it

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 melting down Practice non-reaction This can feel counterintuitive, but sometimes the best strategy is to take a pause and not immediately react or intervene when your child is melting down. —

wendy Wisner, Parents, 3 Apr. 2026 Sidestep a financial wrangle if someone is melting down. —

Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2026 Explosions near the site had already damaged a high-voltage power line; Ukraine feared the failure of cooling systems that prevent nuclear fuel from melting down. —

Robin Wright, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025 The first of the films is Blue Moon, a sweet-and-sour portrait of the lyricist Lorenz Hart (played by Ethan Hawke) melting down at a bar near the tail end of his Broadway career. —

David Sims, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025 If those systems fail—or simply run out of diesel—the plant would have no way to stop the nuclear fuel inside those reactors from overheating and potentially melting down. —

Simon Shuster, Time, 23 Oct. 2025 Grok itself debunks the statement regarding Kirk; Musk’s AI tool cannot find evidence of Steele melting down over people mourning the assassination. —

Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2025 The secret is melting down pink Himalayan salt to combine it with maple syrup. —

Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025 Some teams look fantastic before melting down within a few weeks (2024 New Orleans Saints) and others can get off to a rough start before blossoming within the first two months (2024 Washington Commanders). —

Mike Kaye september 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025

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The style mishaps kept piling up as cracking wise about wardrobe and hair malfunctions became both a media and national pastime.

— Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2026
Yet, the three — even Cavallari and Conrad, who were pitted against each other in the 2000s — were warm and chummy, cracking jokes and enthusiastically agreeing with one another.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026