Usually means: Loss of control, emotional collapse.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. melt down: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. melt down: Merriam-Webster
  3. melt down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. melt down: Vocabulary.com
  5. melt-down: Wordnik
  6. melt down: Wiktionary
  7. melt down: Dictionary.com
  8. melt down: Rhymezone
  9. melt down: FreeDictionary.org
  10. melt down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. melt down: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. melt down: Legal dictionary

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  1. melt down: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. melt down: Medical dictionary

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  1. melt down: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. melt down: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (melt down)

verb:  (transitive) To melt fully, especially metal or glass so that it can be remade into something else.
verb:  (intransitive) To lose structure by being heated to a molten state.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To have a breakdown; to collapse or fail utterly.

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