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melt down
Overview of noun melt-down
The noun meltdown has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. meltdown, nuclear meltdown -- (severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping)
2. meltdown -- (a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown; "there is little likelihood of a meltdown comparable to the American banking collapse in March 1933")
Overview of verb melt-down
The verb melt down has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. melt, run, melt down -- (reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating; "melt butter"; "melt down gold"; "The wax melted in the sun")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun melt-down
2 senses of meltdown
Sense 1
meltdown, nuclear meltdown
=> overheating
=> heating, warming
=> temperature change
=> natural process, natural action, action, activity
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
meltdown
=> calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm
=> misfortune, bad luck
=> trouble
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun melt-down
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun melt-down
2 senses of meltdown
Sense 1
meltdown, nuclear meltdown
=> overheating
Sense 2
meltdown
=> calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm
Antonyms of noun melt-down
Member Holonyms of noun melt-down
Substance Holonyms of noun melt-down
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Member Meronyms of noun melt-down
Substance Meronyms of noun melt-down
Part Meronyms of noun melt-down
Meronyms of noun melt-down
Holonyms of noun melt-down
Attributes of noun melt-down
Derived Forms of noun melt-down
Domain of noun melt-down
Domain Terms of noun melt-down
Familiarity of noun melt-down
meltdown used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun melt-down
2 senses of meltdown
Sense 1
meltdown, nuclear meltdown
> overheating
=> meltdown, nuclear meltdown
Sense 2
meltdown
> calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm
=> act of God, force majeure, vis major, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty
=> apocalypse
=> famine
=> kiss of death
=> meltdown
=> plague
=> visitation
=> tidal wave
=> tsunami
Meronyms of noun melt-down
2 senses of meltdown
Holonyms of noun melt-down
Antonyms of verb melt-down
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb melt-down
1 sense of melt down
Sense 1
melt, run, melt down
=> dissolve, resolve, break up
=> change integrity
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb melt-down
1 sense of melt down
Sense 1
melt, run, melt down
=> fuse
=> try, render
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb melt-down
1 sense of melt down
Sense 1
melt, run, melt down
=> dissolve, resolve, break up
'Cause To' of verb melt-down
Derived Forms of verb melt-down
Domain of verb melt-down
Domain Terms of verb melt-down
Familiarity of verb melt-down
melt down used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb melt-down
1 sense of melt down
Sense 1
melt, run, melt down
*> Something ----s
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb melt-down
1 sense of melt down
Sense 1
melt, run, melt down
> dissolve, resolve, break up
=> melt, run, melt down
=> cut
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb melt-down
Sense 1
melt, run, melt down
=> dissolve, resolve, break up
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