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Melt down

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To melt fully, especially metal or glass so that it can be remade into something else. transitive

    "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."

  2. 2
    reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating wordnet
  3. 3
    To lose structure by being heated to a molten state. intransitive

    "The reactor core melted down."

  4. 4
    To have a breakdown; to collapse or fail utterly. figuratively, intransitive

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