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melt down en · VERB

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Meanings

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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meltdown

Translations (22)

ru распла́виться ((intransitive) to lose structure by being heated to a molten state) · uk розпла́вити ((transitive) to melt fully) · pl przetopić się ((intransitive) to lose structure by being heated to a molten state) · uk розплавля́ти ((transitive) to melt fully) · pl przetapiać się ((intransitive) to lose structure by being heated to a molten state) · pl roztapiać ((transitive) to melt fully) · pl przetopić ((transitive) to melt fully) · ru переплавля́ть ((transitive) to melt fully) · ru расплавля́ться ((intransitive) to lose structure by being heated to a molten state) · uk розплавля́тися ((intransitive) to lose structure by being heated to a molten state) · pl rozpływać się ((intransitive) to lose structure by being heated to a molten state) · uk переплавля́ти ((transitive) to melt fully) · ru перепла́вить ((transitive) to melt fully) · pl roztopić się ((intransitive) to lose structure by being heated to a molten state) · pl przetapiać ((transitive) to melt fully) · ru расплавля́ть ((transitive) to melt fully) · pl roztopić ((transitive) to melt fully) · uk розпла́витися ((intransitive) to lose structure by being heated to a molten state) · ru распла́вить ((transitive) to melt fully) · pl rozpłynąć się ((intransitive) to lose structure by being heated to a molten state) · uk перепла́вити ((transitive) to melt fully) · pl roztapiać się ((intransitive) to lose structure by being heated to a molten state)