Synonyms for meltdown
ˈmɛltˌdaʊnmelt·down

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1. meltdown, nuclear meltdownnoun

   severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping

   Synonyms:
   nuclear meltdown

2. meltdownnoun

   a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown

   "there is little likelihood of a meltdown comparable to the American banking collapse in March 1933"

   Synonyms:
   nuclear meltdown

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1. • Calamity
   • Overheating

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1. List of paraphrases for "meltdown":

   collapse, debacle, implosion, cataclysm, merger, breakup, breakdown, fusion, crisis, crash

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How to use meltdown in a sentence?

1. Tom Watson:

   Theresa May government is in utter meltdown, the country is at a standstill with a divided and shambolic government. The Prime Minister can't deliver Brexit and has zero authority left.

2. Dan Roberts:

   We can teach fourth-graders safe-sex practices, but we can't mention teaching firearm education in a public grade school without anti-gun groups having a complete meltdown. ... It's completely ludicrous.

3. Shinichi Niwa:

   The spread of the virus is wider than the government said, during the (Fukushima) disaster, the government said there was no meltdown. So they hid the truth at the time, and I'm afraid the same situation is happening with the coronavirus.

4. Mark Weiss:

   It was one of the pilots that maybe had a meltdown or did something nefarious to the airplane.

5. Mitsuru Fukuda:

   But in a war, all of these different failures that would have to happen for a reactor to become damaged and meltdown — the likelihood of all of those happening becomes much more likely than it does in peacetime. many of us did not expect a respected country’s military would take such an outrageous step.