as in to crack
to yield to mental or emotional stress
rather than melt down, the team strengthened their resolve and ended up winning the game
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as in tailspin
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as in collapse
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Recent Examples of melt down
Anthony Stitt, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Continue reading … ‘HAWKING IT’ – 'The View' melts down over Biden book, hosts deflect by slamming Trump.
—FOXNews.com, 21 May 2025
Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 2 June 2025
After those two, the next closest players on the leaderboard all sit at -3, making a major meltdown from Scheffler their only chance to surpass him.
—Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 June 2025
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Verb
And during the seventh inning of Sunday’s outing against the Dodgers, Romano melted down and exited to a thunderclap of boos from the Philadelphia crowd.
—Anthony Stitt, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Continue reading … ‘HAWKING IT’ – 'The View' melts down over Biden book, hosts deflect by slamming Trump.
—FOXNews.com, 21 May 2025
Noun
The closure came just weeks before a radar outage that precipitated a staffing shortage — a trifecta of maladies that lead to a May meltdown for New Jersey travelers.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 2 June 2025
After those two, the next closest players on the leaderboard all sit at -3, making a major meltdown from Scheffler their only chance to surpass him.
—Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melt down
Verb
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Because the game can break on slot pass to Sam Bennett, crack a bar.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
13 June 2025
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Pre-pandemic, 19 out of its 22 films at least cracked $500 million globally.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
12 June 2025
Noun
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Not so lucky was Roy Wilson, a veteran of over 65 aerial sequences, who was killed during the filming of Columbia’s War Correspondent (1932) when his plane went into a tailspin at 2,000 feet and cracked up on the ground.—
Thomas Doherty,
HollywoodReporter,
14 June 2025
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If that much oil supply was disrupted, prices would easily soar above $100 a barrel and the global economy would go into a tailspin.—
Michael Lynch,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
Noun
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Critics of renewables will rightly point out that renewables are cheap as long as battery storage is not included in their price, and the sudden collapse of an entire electric grid for 12 hours incurs a staggering economic burden that should be priced into cost calculations.—
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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Beutel, a computer engineer specializing in mountain monitoring, had just witnessed a glacier collapse.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
7 June 2025
Noun
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What follows is a melee of pratfalls and freak-outs, a guffaw-worthy display by such a fine group of actors.—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
21 May 2025
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Expect multiple scenes of the characters engaging in psychedelic frolics and freak-outs, some of which illustrate their backstories through sweaty, surreal vignettes.—
Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
19 May 2025
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Similarly, the market-resilience work performed by a lab at the University of California, Davis, offers solutions to farmers and agricultural communities that are vulnerable to intensifying weather disasters.—
Peter Slevin,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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Federal database that tracked costly weather disasters no longer being updated How to prepare for an earthquake disaster Huge earthquakes have long been an existential crisis for millions along the West Coast, as described in a 2022 USA TODAY article.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
8 June 2025
Noun
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One of my editors used to say that every good book has at least one nervous breakdown in its background.—
Thomas E. Ricks
June 6,
Literary Hub,
6 June 2025
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At 19, as his peers made plans for college, Diller had a nervous breakdown.—
Alexandra Jacobs,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
Noun
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Who's in The Last of Us season 3 cast? Season 2 of The Last of Us was a bloodbath, with Ellie slaughtering several characters before seeing Jesse shot dead in the finale.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
4 June 2025
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Each issue centers around the bonds that women form with each other, and in this case, forged vis-à-vis a carnal and violent bloodbath.—
Tiffany Leigh,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
Verb
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Various items were pulled from shelves back in March, ranging from fears that teething sticks could be a choking hazard to concerns about the particular batteries in a microphone potentially overheating and igniting.—
Chloe Mayer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 June 2025
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On Monday, Jane gave harrowing testimony about a night in June 2024 when Combs allegedly choked, punched and kicked her in a rage.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
10 June 2025
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“Melt down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melt%20down. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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