Meaning of melt down | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To melt fully, especially metal or glass so that it can be remade into something else.
   transitive
2. To lose structure by being heated to a molten state.
   intransitive
3. To have a breakdown; to collapse or fail utterly.
   figuratively, intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“The reactor core melted down.”

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