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melts down

melts down is the third-person singular simple present indicative of melt down.

Meaning of melt down

Verb

melt down (third-person singular simple present melts down, present participle melting down, simple past melted down, past participle melted down or (archaic) molten down)

  1. (transitive) To melt fully, especially metal or glass so that it can be remade into something else.
    • The Great Exhibition of 1851 is also very much in King's Cross's DNA. The clock in its short, Italianate central tower came from the Exhibition and in its early years it struck the hours, but the bells were first silenced in the First World War and then melted down during the Second World War.2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 39
  2. (intransitive) To lose structure by being heated to a molten state.
    • The reactor core melted down.
  3. (figuratively, intransitive) To have a breakdown; to collapse or fail utterly.

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Melts down is the third-person singular simple present indicative of melt down.

Words near melts down in the dictionary

  1. meltproof
  2. meltrin
  3. meltrins
  4. melts
  5. melts away
  6. melts down
  7. melts in the mouth
  8. melts into
  9. melts someone's butter
  10. melts up
  11. meltwater

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