What is another word for melt down?

Pronunciation: [mˈɛlt dˈa͡ʊn] (IPA)

The phrase "melt down" can have several synonyms depending on the context. In a literal sense, it may mean melting or liquefying something. In a metaphorical sense, it could refer to a person's emotional breakdown or a disastrous situation. Some common synonyms for "melt down" include meltdown, breakdown, collapse, disintegrate, dissolve, crumble, break apart, shatter, and fall apart. These words are often used interchangeably to describe the gradual or sudden decline of something or someone. Each word implies different levels of intensity and may be used to describe a range of situations from a minor inconvenience to a catastrophic event.

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What are the hypernyms for Melt down?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Melt down

  • There is an icy window before every man! Faces cannot be seen clearly! Wait for the ice to melt down!
    Mehmet Murat ildan
  • The Opera House is a splendid edifice, and I wish to take nothing away from it, but my heart belongs to the Harbour Bridge. It's not as festive, but it is far more dominant – you can see it from every corner of the city, creeping into frame from the oddest angles, like an uncle who wants to get into every snapshot. From a distance it has a kind of gallant restraint, majestic but not assertive, but up close it is all might. It soars above you, so high that you could pass a ten-storey building beneath it, and looks like the heaviest thing on earth. Everything that is in it – the stone blocks in its four towers, the latticework of girders, the metal plates, the six-million rivets (with heads like halved apples) – is the biggest of its type you have ever seen. This is a bridge built by people who have had an Industrial Revolution, people with mountains of coal and ovens in which you could melt down a battleship. The arch alone weighs 30,000 tons. This is a great bridge.
    Bill Bryson
  • “It’s a wonder to me,” said Adams sourly, “that you don’t simply melt down in the white heat of your brilliance.”
    Clifford D. Simak

Related words: nuclear meltdown, air meltdown, heat meltdown, water meltdown, keyboard meltdown, computer meltdown

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