melt down

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

melt down - reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating; "melt butter"; "melt down gold"; "The wax melted in the sun" melt, run fuse - make liquid or plastic by heating; "The storm fused the electric mains" try, render - melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities; "try the yak butter"; "render fat in a casserole" dissolve, break up, resolve - cause to go into a solution; "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water" bleed, run - be diffused; "These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run"

Translations

? melt down

vt sep → einschmelzen

vi (reactor core) → schmelzen