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RELATED WORD : nuclear meltdown

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Noun meltdown has 2 senses

• meltdown(n = noun.process) nuclear meltdown - severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping; Array
is a kind of overheating

• meltdown(n = noun.event) Array - a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown; "there is little likelihood of a meltdown comparable to the American banking collapse in March 1933"
is a kind of calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy

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Cessation

N cessation, discontinuance, desistance, desinence, intermission, remission, suspense, suspension, interruption, stop, stopping, closure, stoppage, halt, arrival, pause, rest, lull, respite, truce, drop, interregnum, abeyance, cloture, dead stop, dead stand, dead lock, finis, cerrado, blowout, burnout, meltdown, disintegration, comma, colon, semicolon, period, full stop, end, death, I pause for a reply.

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