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meltdown   (TTS Sound)

The noun meltdown has 2 senses

• meltdown, nuclear meltdown -- (severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping)


• meltdown -- (a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown; "there is little likelihood of a meltdown comparable to the American banking collapse in March 1933")