Definitions for meltdown

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meltdown melt·down

Spelling: [melt-doun]

IPA: /ˈmɛltˌdaʊn/

Meltdown is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 267 anagrams from letters in meltdown (delmnotw).

Definitions for meltdown

noun

1. the melting of a significant portion of a nuclear-reactor core due to inadequate cooling of the fuel elements, a condition that could lead to the escape of radiation.
2. a quickly developing breakdown or collapse:
3. Informal. a sudden loss of control over one’s feelings or behavior:

Origin of meltdown

First recorded in 1960-65; noun use of verb phrase melt down

Examples for meltdown

From hip-hop to electronic and indie rock, with artists like Cold War Kids and meltdown, see which music videos are going viral.

The dynamics of a meltdown of the GOP majority would be different from that and so would the legislative outcomes.

After the most recent Avicii meltdown, an avid finger-pointing game has gone wild on the Web.

So which of you two will be the first to have a Charlie Sheen meltdown?

The deficit is down to 2.8 percent of GDP, from a high of 10.1 percent in the wake of the meltdown.

The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.

How does a writer tell the story of America since the meltdown?

That also starred Robert Downey Jr. during the height of his meltdown period.

Then in 2008, the year of the meltdown, it dropped to $53,644.

Last year, it began to recover a bit for the first time since the meltdown—it was logged at $52,100 in June 2013.