Thesaurus results for MELTED DOWN

melted down

verb

past tense of melt down

as in cracked

to yield to mental or emotional stress rather than melt down, the team strengthened their resolve and ended up winning the game

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Recent Examples of melted down After the band melted down, Hughes went out on his own, releasing his 1977 solo debut, Play Me Out, the first of more than a dozen solo LPs he’s released. — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2026 Ever since the Dodgers dropped a billion-dollar hammer on Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the rest of baseball has melted down. — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026 Herbert melted down, getting stonewalled on a fourth-and-one keeper, fumbling away the next possession, then ending the next with an interception. — Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026 Here’s why How junk silver is valued The price of junk silver is based on its melt value — the value of the silver content if the coin were melted down. — Nick Perry, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026 Thieves also are increasingly targeting museum items with gold and other precious metals that can be melted down and with gemstones that can be removed and sold, the agency said in a report in August. — ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026 Due to this, silver was often cut into smaller pieces or melted down. — Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026 Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a stretch yarn from polyethylene that is able to be melted down and recycled. — Sarah Jones, Footwear News, 10 Aug. 2026 Tin cans are also melted down and turned into aluminium for jewelry. — Emese MacZko, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026

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Wood panel in front of the three-compartment sink is not smooth and easily cleanable and container used for butter packets is cracked.

— NWA Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
Jasper Nathaniel, an independent journalist who helped Levine escape the attack, said that Levine also had cracked ribs, and may have been stabbed.

— Cameron Peters, Vox, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of cracked

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The men, or sometimes women, who hit them, pulled their hair or choked them, bruising their throats.

— Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2026
Metal barricades choked the streets as police moved against young demonstrators, beating some, dragging others into buses and chasing away the rest.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of choked

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And on the day of filming, Brolin broke down in tears after witnessing Merced’s portrayal of the shattered teenager.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026
His address last year came months after the 12-day Israel-Iran war that saw the assassination of many of the Islamic Republic's highest military and political leaders and once again broke down weeks of negotiations with the United States.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2026

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