Definition of meltdown in English:

meltdown

noun ˈmɛltdaʊnˈmɛltˌdaʊn

1A disastrous collapse or breakdown.
灾难性崩溃（或瓦解）
the global financial system suffered a major meltdown
全球金融体系遭遇严重崩溃。
Example sentencesExamples
- The patient also learns how to cope with unavoidable stress without having a meltdown.
- But he was saved from a total electoral meltdown by only a handful of votes.
- Given this me-too drive to imitate and adore, why are celebrity flame-outs and meltdowns so fascinating?
- Ohio State's win over Washington State and Penn State's over Nebraska were overshadowed by, among other results, meltdowns by Michigan State against Cal and Iowa against Iowa State.
- All three sell products to a wide range of markets, which helps protect them from a meltdown in any one sector.
- That's why Yu's comments triggered such angst among those who see the makings of a dollar meltdown.
- While no one expects hedge-fund values to be listed in the daily newspapers, everyone would be relieved if fewer meltdowns appeared in the headlines.
- Let the kids and grandkids deal with it, just like they can deal with the deficit, rogue nuclear meltdowns, and the collapse of the currency market.
- The last thing a small business needs is a computer meltdown just when it's time to run off the monthly accounts.
- On the ice, the emphasis no longer is on the meltdowns he used to suffer when the pressure was the greatest, when opponents tried to get under his skin.
- The public has long been suspicious of big business, but the recent financial meltdowns have created even more disdain and distrust.
- First there was the Nasdaq meltdown and the devastation of the dotcoms and the idea of the casual workplace.
- It's been a long time since I've had a major meltdown, and this time it was just about a puppy.
- I'd be the last to whinge about tight deadlines, technology meltdowns, the stress, the strain, the always urgent need to come up with an alternative expression for ‘and the wall did its job.’
- Perhaps the most critical lesson learned from last year, however, is the heavy price corporate reputations pay for such meltdowns.
- Remember the anticipations of catastrophes brought about by computer meltdowns.
- As a result, sudden meltdowns - such as the Asian financial crisis - can turn flourishing countries into basket cases overnight.
- Only the most brilliant of chief executives can move the share price and even here the evidence in the face of the dotcom meltdown is scant.
- We asked them to offer practical lessons that they learned from the meltdown.
- Will any of the business models that emerged over the past five years survive the meltdown on Wall Street?
Synonyms
steep fall, plunge, drop, collapse, tumble, plummet, downturn, downswing, slide, decline, falling off, decrease, lowering, devaluation, depreciation
1. 1.1informal An uncontrolled emotional outburst or a mental collapse.
  the story will revolve around her meltdown following the accident
  Example sentencesExamples
  Computer geeks are extremely unlikely to suffer one of those spectacular emotional meltdowns that make for good television.
  The success of the vineyard, which Grace admits was a boon for his ego, coincided with personal and emotional meltdown.
  King delivers a searing portrait of a troubled man approaching meltdown.
  She won't win Celebrity Big Brother, but we'd like her to stay in the house long enough to finish her meltdown.
  Even when Tina smiles she looks as if she's about to have a complete and utter mental meltdown.
  The last thing the shop will want is some woman having a long, loud, massive meltdown in their front room.
  Her mental meltdown had as much to do with genes as it did with personal crises.
  Five years later, he suffered another meltdown at a press conference in New York.
  On the verge of a workaholic meltdown, Bella's doctor advises her to go to the Caribbean for a month.
  He takes great joy in making her smile, and we feel his helplessness at her meltdowns.
  She is a powerhouse of brooding, internal frustration on the verge of a meltdown.
  He's moving toward a meltdown through most of the movie, but he's really a good kid.
  Maggie takes in the despondent Victoria, a bright and sensitive girl whose life is on the brink of total meltdown.
  Margo's spectacular meltdown at a dinner party is so effective because there are barbs of truth sprinkled in with the vain wailing and gnashing of teeth.
  Teenager Holly Hamilton is tired of moving every time her single mum Jean has another personal meltdown involving yet another second-rate guy.
  The slightest distraction, even something as seemingly benign as a water fountain or a beam of sunlight, can trigger a "meltdown," in which autistic patients are overcome with anxiety.
  He made no secret of his personal meltdown last year.
  During a decisive meltdown, she kills her husband with the help of her obese maid.
  Megan still has meltdowns, or tantrums, because she finds it very difficult to communicate.
  They can have a mid-life meltdown if they feel they must, but nobody really cares.
2An accident in a nuclear reactor in which the fuel overheats and melts the reactor core or shielding.
熔毁（指核燃料过热熔化反应堆活性区或外罩）
Example sentencesExamples
- I was 21 years old and it was three days after the partial meltdown of the reactor core.
- A year ago one of the company's nuclear plants came dangerously close to a core meltdown.
- Some nuclear critics had asserted that a core meltdown would inevitably breach containment.
- Lipsio said he took little comfort in knowing that the meltdown at the Palm Beach elections office happened during a trial to help spot such problems.
- Over the years, Congress has created one program after another to insure individuals and businesses against a panoply of hazards, from natural disasters to bank failures to nuclear reactor meltdowns.
- Like a meltdown in a nuclear power plant, the conflagration now threatens to take the whole examination system down with it.
- Go and try out the Nuclear Power Plant Simulator and see how many meltdowns you cause before you manage to survive an entire shift.
- Fearing a meltdown, the reactor officer shuts down the submarine's main source of power.
- In May 1967 radioactivity was released into the environment when fuel caught fire in a reactor and suffered a partial meltdown.
- Somewhere along the way, a pipe bursts in the reactor core and meltdown begins.
- They show you presentations of how top military bases were hacked and nuclear installations almost brought to meltdown.
- Even as a result of the only major meltdown, at Three Mile Island in the United States a quarter of a century ago, no lives were lost.
- I can't walk into a nuclear power plant and start fiddling with knobs and dials, without causing a nuclear meltdown.
Synonyms
disaster, catastrophe, calamity, tragedy, act of god, devastation, crisis, holocaust, ruin, ruination, upheaval, convulsion, blow, shock, reverse, trouble, trial, tribulation

Definition of meltdown in US English:

meltdown

nounˈmeltˌdounˈmɛltˌdaʊn

1A disastrous event, especially a rapid fall in share prices.
the 1987 stock market meltdown
Example sentencesExamples
- All three sell products to a wide range of markets, which helps protect them from a meltdown in any one sector.
- Perhaps the most critical lesson learned from last year, however, is the heavy price corporate reputations pay for such meltdowns.
- It's been a long time since I've had a major meltdown, and this time it was just about a puppy.
- Remember the anticipations of catastrophes brought about by computer meltdowns.
- That's why Yu's comments triggered such angst among those who see the makings of a dollar meltdown.
- I'd be the last to whinge about tight deadlines, technology meltdowns, the stress, the strain, the always urgent need to come up with an alternative expression for ‘and the wall did its job.’
- Will any of the business models that emerged over the past five years survive the meltdown on Wall Street?
- First there was the Nasdaq meltdown and the devastation of the dotcoms and the idea of the casual workplace.
- On the ice, the emphasis no longer is on the meltdowns he used to suffer when the pressure was the greatest, when opponents tried to get under his skin.
- Given this me-too drive to imitate and adore, why are celebrity flame-outs and meltdowns so fascinating?
- But he was saved from a total electoral meltdown by only a handful of votes.
- We asked them to offer practical lessons that they learned from the meltdown.
- The public has long been suspicious of big business, but the recent financial meltdowns have created even more disdain and distrust.
- Only the most brilliant of chief executives can move the share price and even here the evidence in the face of the dotcom meltdown is scant.
- The patient also learns how to cope with unavoidable stress without having a meltdown.
- As a result, sudden meltdowns - such as the Asian financial crisis - can turn flourishing countries into basket cases overnight.
- The last thing a small business needs is a computer meltdown just when it's time to run off the monthly accounts.
- While no one expects hedge-fund values to be listed in the daily newspapers, everyone would be relieved if fewer meltdowns appeared in the headlines.
- Ohio State's win over Washington State and Penn State's over Nebraska were overshadowed by, among other results, meltdowns by Michigan State against Cal and Iowa against Iowa State.
- Let the kids and grandkids deal with it, just like they can deal with the deficit, rogue nuclear meltdowns, and the collapse of the currency market.
Synonyms
steep fall, plunge, drop, collapse, tumble, plummet, downturn, downswing, slide, decline, falling off, decrease, lowering, devaluation, depreciation
1. 1.1informal An outburst of severe emotional distress; a nervous breakdown.
  they wondered what could have triggered her meltdown
  Example sentencesExamples
  She is a powerhouse of brooding, internal frustration on the verge of a meltdown.
  The success of the vineyard, which Grace admits was a boon for his ego, coincided with personal and emotional meltdown.
  Computer geeks are extremely unlikely to suffer one of those spectacular emotional meltdowns that make for good television.
  King delivers a searing portrait of a troubled man approaching meltdown.
  Even when Tina smiles she looks as if she's about to have a complete and utter mental meltdown.
  He's moving toward a meltdown through most of the movie, but he's really a good kid.
  He made no secret of his personal meltdown last year.
  Teenager Holly Hamilton is tired of moving every time her single mum Jean has another personal meltdown involving yet another second-rate guy.
  The last thing the shop will want is some woman having a long, loud, massive meltdown in their front room.
  Megan still has meltdowns, or tantrums, because she finds it very difficult to communicate.
  Margo's spectacular meltdown at a dinner party is so effective because there are barbs of truth sprinkled in with the vain wailing and gnashing of teeth.
  Her mental meltdown had as much to do with genes as it did with personal crises.
  During a decisive meltdown, she kills her husband with the help of her obese maid.
  Five years later, he suffered another meltdown at a press conference in New York.
  They can have a mid-life meltdown if they feel they must, but nobody really cares.
  She won't win Celebrity Big Brother, but we'd like her to stay in the house long enough to finish her meltdown.
  Maggie takes in the despondent Victoria, a bright and sensitive girl whose life is on the brink of total meltdown.
  On the verge of a workaholic meltdown, Bella's doctor advises her to go to the Caribbean for a month.
  The slightest distraction, even something as seemingly benign as a water fountain or a beam of sunlight, can trigger a "meltdown," in which autistic patients are overcome with anxiety.
  He takes great joy in making her smile, and we feel his helplessness at her meltdowns.
2An accident in a nuclear reactor in which the fuel overheats and melts the reactor core or shielding.
熔毁（指核燃料过热熔化反应堆活性区或外罩）
Example sentencesExamples
- Like a meltdown in a nuclear power plant, the conflagration now threatens to take the whole examination system down with it.
- Fearing a meltdown, the reactor officer shuts down the submarine's main source of power.
- Over the years, Congress has created one program after another to insure individuals and businesses against a panoply of hazards, from natural disasters to bank failures to nuclear reactor meltdowns.
- Some nuclear critics had asserted that a core meltdown would inevitably breach containment.
- I was 21 years old and it was three days after the partial meltdown of the reactor core.
- Even as a result of the only major meltdown, at Three Mile Island in the United States a quarter of a century ago, no lives were lost.
- They show you presentations of how top military bases were hacked and nuclear installations almost brought to meltdown.
- I can't walk into a nuclear power plant and start fiddling with knobs and dials, without causing a nuclear meltdown.
- A year ago one of the company's nuclear plants came dangerously close to a core meltdown.
- Go and try out the Nuclear Power Plant Simulator and see how many meltdowns you cause before you manage to survive an entire shift.
- In May 1967 radioactivity was released into the environment when fuel caught fire in a reactor and suffered a partial meltdown.
- Lipsio said he took little comfort in knowing that the meltdown at the Palm Beach elections office happened during a trial to help spot such problems.
- Somewhere along the way, a pipe bursts in the reactor core and meltdown begins.
Synonyms
disaster, catastrophe, calamity, tragedy, act of god, devastation, crisis, holocaust, ruin, ruination, upheaval, convulsion, blow, shock, reverse, trouble, trial, tribulation

词汇	meltdown
释义	Definition of meltdown in English: meltdown noun ˈmɛltdaʊnˈmɛltˌdaʊn 1A disastrous collapse or breakdown. 灾难性崩溃（或瓦解） the global financial system suffered a major meltdown 全球金融体系遭遇严重崩溃。 Example sentencesExamples The patient also learns how to cope with unavoidable stress without having a meltdown. But he was saved from a total electoral meltdown by only a handful of votes. Given this me-too drive to imitate and adore, why are celebrity flame-outs and meltdowns so fascinating? Ohio State's win over Washington State and Penn State's over Nebraska were overshadowed by, among other results, meltdowns by Michigan State against Cal and Iowa against Iowa State. All three sell products to a wide range of markets, which helps protect them from a meltdown in any one sector. That's why Yu's comments triggered such angst among those who see the makings of a dollar meltdown. While no one expects hedge-fund values to be listed in the daily newspapers, everyone would be relieved if fewer meltdowns appeared in the headlines. Let the kids and grandkids deal with it, just like they can deal with the deficit, rogue nuclear meltdowns, and the collapse of the currency market. The last thing a small business needs is a computer meltdown just when it's time to run off the monthly accounts. On the ice, the emphasis no longer is on the meltdowns he used to suffer when the pressure was the greatest, when opponents tried to get under his skin. The public has long been suspicious of big business, but the recent financial meltdowns have created even more disdain and distrust. First there was the Nasdaq meltdown and the devastation of the dotcoms and the idea of the casual workplace. It's been a long time since I've had a major meltdown, and this time it was just about a puppy. I'd be the last to whinge about tight deadlines, technology meltdowns, the stress, the strain, the always urgent need to come up with an alternative expression for ‘and the wall did its job.’ Perhaps the most critical lesson learned from last year, however, is the heavy price corporate reputations pay for such meltdowns. Remember the anticipations of catastrophes brought about by computer meltdowns. As a result, sudden meltdowns - such as the Asian financial crisis - can turn flourishing countries into basket cases overnight. Only the most brilliant of chief executives can move the share price and even here the evidence in the face of the dotcom meltdown is scant. We asked them to offer practical lessons that they learned from the meltdown. Will any of the business models that emerged over the past five years survive the meltdown on Wall Street? Synonyms steep fall, plunge, drop, collapse, tumble, plummet, downturn, downswing, slide, decline, falling off, decrease, lowering, devaluation, depreciation 1.1informal An uncontrolled emotional outburst or a mental collapse. the story will revolve around her meltdown following the accident Example sentencesExamples Computer geeks are extremely unlikely to suffer one of those spectacular emotional meltdowns that make for good television. The success of the vineyard, which Grace admits was a boon for his ego, coincided with personal and emotional meltdown. King delivers a searing portrait of a troubled man approaching meltdown. She won't win Celebrity Big Brother, but we'd like her to stay in the house long enough to finish her meltdown. Even when Tina smiles she looks as if she's about to have a complete and utter mental meltdown. The last thing the shop will want is some woman having a long, loud, massive meltdown in their front room. Her mental meltdown had as much to do with genes as it did with personal crises. Five years later, he suffered another meltdown at a press conference in New York. On the verge of a workaholic meltdown, Bella's doctor advises her to go to the Caribbean for a month. He takes great joy in making her smile, and we feel his helplessness at her meltdowns. She is a powerhouse of brooding, internal frustration on the verge of a meltdown. He's moving toward a meltdown through most of the movie, but he's really a good kid. Maggie takes in the despondent Victoria, a bright and sensitive girl whose life is on the brink of total meltdown. Margo's spectacular meltdown at a dinner party is so effective because there are barbs of truth sprinkled in with the vain wailing and gnashing of teeth. Teenager Holly Hamilton is tired of moving every time her single mum Jean has another personal meltdown involving yet another second-rate guy. The slightest distraction, even something as seemingly benign as a water fountain or a beam of sunlight, can trigger a "meltdown," in which autistic patients are overcome with anxiety. He made no secret of his personal meltdown last year. During a decisive meltdown, she kills her husband with the help of her obese maid. Megan still has meltdowns, or tantrums, because she finds it very difficult to communicate. They can have a mid-life meltdown if they feel they must, but nobody really cares. 2An accident in a nuclear reactor in which the fuel overheats and melts the reactor core or shielding. 熔毁（指核燃料过热熔化反应堆活性区或外罩） Example sentencesExamples I was 21 years old and it was three days after the partial meltdown of the reactor core. A year ago one of the company's nuclear plants came dangerously close to a core meltdown. Some nuclear critics had asserted that a core meltdown would inevitably breach containment. Lipsio said he took little comfort in knowing that the meltdown at the Palm Beach elections office happened during a trial to help spot such problems. Over the years, Congress has created one program after another to insure individuals and businesses against a panoply of hazards, from natural disasters to bank failures to nuclear reactor meltdowns. Like a meltdown in a nuclear power plant, the conflagration now threatens to take the whole examination system down with it. Go and try out the Nuclear Power Plant Simulator and see how many meltdowns you cause before you manage to survive an entire shift. Fearing a meltdown, the reactor officer shuts down the submarine's main source of power. In May 1967 radioactivity was released into the environment when fuel caught fire in a reactor and suffered a partial meltdown. Somewhere along the way, a pipe bursts in the reactor core and meltdown begins. They show you presentations of how top military bases were hacked and nuclear installations almost brought to meltdown. Even as a result of the only major meltdown, at Three Mile Island in the United States a quarter of a century ago, no lives were lost. I can't walk into a nuclear power plant and start fiddling with knobs and dials, without causing a nuclear meltdown. Synonyms disaster, catastrophe, calamity, tragedy, act of god, devastation, crisis, holocaust, ruin, ruination, upheaval, convulsion, blow, shock, reverse, trouble, trial, tribulation Definition of meltdown in US English: meltdown nounˈmeltˌdounˈmɛltˌdaʊn 1A disastrous event, especially a rapid fall in share prices. the 1987 stock market meltdown Example sentencesExamples All three sell products to a wide range of markets, which helps protect them from a meltdown in any one sector. Perhaps the most critical lesson learned from last year, however, is the heavy price corporate reputations pay for such meltdowns. It's been a long time since I've had a major meltdown, and this time it was just about a puppy. Remember the anticipations of catastrophes brought about by computer meltdowns. That's why Yu's comments triggered such angst among those who see the makings of a dollar meltdown. I'd be the last to whinge about tight deadlines, technology meltdowns, the stress, the strain, the always urgent need to come up with an alternative expression for ‘and the wall did its job.’ Will any of the business models that emerged over the past five years survive the meltdown on Wall Street? First there was the Nasdaq meltdown and the devastation of the dotcoms and the idea of the casual workplace. On the ice, the emphasis no longer is on the meltdowns he used to suffer when the pressure was the greatest, when opponents tried to get under his skin. Given this me-too drive to imitate and adore, why are celebrity flame-outs and meltdowns so fascinating? But he was saved from a total electoral meltdown by only a handful of votes. We asked them to offer practical lessons that they learned from the meltdown. The public has long been suspicious of big business, but the recent financial meltdowns have created even more disdain and distrust. Only the most brilliant of chief executives can move the share price and even here the evidence in the face of the dotcom meltdown is scant. The patient also learns how to cope with unavoidable stress without having a meltdown. As a result, sudden meltdowns - such as the Asian financial crisis - can turn flourishing countries into basket cases overnight. The last thing a small business needs is a computer meltdown just when it's time to run off the monthly accounts. While no one expects hedge-fund values to be listed in the daily newspapers, everyone would be relieved if fewer meltdowns appeared in the headlines. Ohio State's win over Washington State and Penn State's over Nebraska were overshadowed by, among other results, meltdowns by Michigan State against Cal and Iowa against Iowa State. Let the kids and grandkids deal with it, just like they can deal with the deficit, rogue nuclear meltdowns, and the collapse of the currency market. Synonyms steep fall, plunge, drop, collapse, tumble, plummet, downturn, downswing, slide, decline, falling off, decrease, lowering, devaluation, depreciation 1.1informal An outburst of severe emotional distress; a nervous breakdown. they wondered what could have triggered her meltdown Example sentencesExamples She is a powerhouse of brooding, internal frustration on the verge of a meltdown. The success of the vineyard, which Grace admits was a boon for his ego, coincided with personal and emotional meltdown. Computer geeks are extremely unlikely to suffer one of those spectacular emotional meltdowns that make for good television. King delivers a searing portrait of a troubled man approaching meltdown. Even when Tina smiles she looks as if she's about to have a complete and utter mental meltdown. He's moving toward a meltdown through most of the movie, but he's really a good kid. He made no secret of his personal meltdown last year. Teenager Holly Hamilton is tired of moving every time her single mum Jean has another personal meltdown involving yet another second-rate guy. The last thing the shop will want is some woman having a long, loud, massive meltdown in their front room. Megan still has meltdowns, or tantrums, because she finds it very difficult to communicate. Margo's spectacular meltdown at a dinner party is so effective because there are barbs of truth sprinkled in with the vain wailing and gnashing of teeth. Her mental meltdown had as much to do with genes as it did with personal crises. During a decisive meltdown, she kills her husband with the help of her obese maid. Five years later, he suffered another meltdown at a press conference in New York. They can have a mid-life meltdown if they feel they must, but nobody really cares. She won't win Celebrity Big Brother, but we'd like her to stay in the house long enough to finish her meltdown. Maggie takes in the despondent Victoria, a bright and sensitive girl whose life is on the brink of total meltdown. On the verge of a workaholic meltdown, Bella's doctor advises her to go to the Caribbean for a month. The slightest distraction, even something as seemingly benign as a water fountain or a beam of sunlight, can trigger a "meltdown," in which autistic patients are overcome with anxiety. He takes great joy in making her smile, and we feel his helplessness at her meltdowns. 2An accident in a nuclear reactor in which the fuel overheats and melts the reactor core or shielding. 熔毁（指核燃料过热熔化反应堆活性区或外罩） Example sentencesExamples Like a meltdown in a nuclear power plant, the conflagration now threatens to take the whole examination system down with it. Fearing a meltdown, the reactor officer shuts down the submarine's main source of power. Over the years, Congress has created one program after another to insure individuals and businesses against a panoply of hazards, from natural disasters to bank failures to nuclear reactor meltdowns. Some nuclear critics had asserted that a core meltdown would inevitably breach containment. I was 21 years old and it was three days after the partial meltdown of the reactor core. Even as a result of the only major meltdown, at Three Mile Island in the United States a quarter of a century ago, no lives were lost. They show you presentations of how top military bases were hacked and nuclear installations almost brought to meltdown. I can't walk into a nuclear power plant and start fiddling with knobs and dials, without causing a nuclear meltdown. A year ago one of the company's nuclear plants came dangerously close to a core meltdown. Go and try out the Nuclear Power Plant Simulator and see how many meltdowns you cause before you manage to survive an entire shift. In May 1967 radioactivity was released into the environment when fuel caught fire in a reactor and suffered a partial meltdown. Lipsio said he took little comfort in knowing that the meltdown at the Palm Beach elections office happened during a trial to help spot such problems. Somewhere along the way, a pipe bursts in the reactor core and meltdown begins. Synonyms disaster, catastrophe, calamity, tragedy, act of god, devastation, crisis, holocaust, ruin, ruination, upheaval, convulsion, blow, shock, reverse, trouble, trial, tribulation
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