melt down (English, verb)
expansion: melt down (third-person singular simple present melts down, present participle melting down, simple past melted down, past participle melted down or (archaic) molten down)
Senses:
glosses: To melt fully, especially metal or glass so that it can be remade into something else.
tags: transitive
glosses: To lose structure by being heated to a molten state.
tags: intransitive
glosses: To have a breakdown; to collapse or fail utterly.
tags: figuratively
intransitive
Forms:
form: melts down
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: melting down
tags: participle
present
form: melted down
tags: past
form: melted down
tags: participle
past
form: molten down
tags: archaic
participle
past