Word Finder - meltdown

definition

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

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Four years have passed since the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, but the grim legacy of the Soviet catastrophe is still unfolding. https//web.archive.org/web/20041130094534/http://www.time.com/time/daily/chernobyl/chernobyl.index.html

definition

A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis.

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Computer engineers were at a loss last night to explain why the Government had been hit by arguably the worst electronic meltdown in the history of Whitehall. https//web.archive.org/web/20041209011615/http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=587262

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A tantrum.

For dads-to-be, you can choose from lighthearted fare like She's Having a Baby-and I'm Having a Meltdown or informational books like The Everything Father to Be Book.

I feel like I had a meltdown last night.

Unable to look away from him, she couldn't fight the sense she was about to have a total meltdown.

And despite the doomsters predicting a market meltdown, he believes he can carry on making millions for years to come.

Come economic meltdown I'd rather be the proud owner of 10% baked beans than 10% gold.

In these circumstances, avoiding complete meltdown was arguably an achievement in itself.

In fact, arguably the CP needed pro-party dissidents like Hobsbawm in 1957 to prevent total meltdown.

To stop the meltdown we must slow global warming.

The ' Asian meltdown ' hit global markets during the preparation of this feature, upping the stakes in the widening risk debate.

If you are in the middle of a rant about your child or estranged partner, either by yourself, in your head or with your best friend, take a deep breath and honestly ask yourself where the source of your meltdown lies.

I think the only solution is to force the barber to grow a beard to save our brains going into meltdown.

Amicus general secretary Derek Simpson said, " British industry is facing meltdown due to inflated energy costs.

Ben Davis's sprawling play, with its vision of impending global meltdown, is certainly ambitious.

With so much time on their hands, financial meltdown is a disaster waiting to happen.

The biggest nuclear meltdown you've ever seen, that's what!

Everything about her - her voice, her persona, even her clothes seems to tremble permanently on the brink of total meltdown.

To the extent you succeed in doing so, you are deflating an economy already shrunk by the stock market meltdown.

Buildings could go mad Buildings are prime targets for Millenium meltdown.

While Barry Davies remained speechless, the RSPB switchboard went into meltdown.

You are leaving town for a week and a day and will completely avoid your spouse's meltdown.

Avoid a makeup meltdown by applying a tinted moisturizer or light foundation.

Having more than one style in mind means not having to suffer through a potential fashion meltdown later on.

Her major meltdown - In January of 2007, Britney refused to turn over her kids when her visitation with them was over.

Anyway, Tila Tequila had a serious meltdown in which she decided it was a good idea to catch on camera and be nude whilst commencing the whole calamity.

In Goganga Town, go to the meltdown reactor.

The impact of the mortgage meltdown of 2007 will be felt in the mortgage industry and in financial markets around the world for decades to come.

Family vacations can have moments of meltdown because kids are bored or tired.

It just takes one meltdown to make parents apprehensive about ever going out in public again.

They try their freezing beam to stop Godzilla's meltdown but to no avail.

She wanted to tell him to leave, but whatever bond existed between them, it filled her with warmth and energy that quelled the meltdown she was about to have.

She wasn't certain her meltdown would wait, but this place seemed real enough.

Always a maverick, he had called for a sharp devaluation of the Russian ruble before the August 1998 financial meltdown.

Meltdown, the band 's first stateside release for Record Collection, arrived in spring 2005.

I've learned how to wait until I'm home in bed to have a meltdown, Jessi replied.