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breakdown (third-person singular simple presentbreaks down,present participlebreaking down,simple pastbroke down,past participlebroken downor(informal)broke down)

  2. (intransitive, of amachine,computer,vehicle, etc.) Tostopfunctioning.
    I am afraid my computer willbreak down if I try to run it at too high a speed.
  4. (intransitive) Tounexpectedlycollapse,physically or instructure.
    Coordinate terms:break apart,break up,fall apart,fall down
  6. (transitive) Tointentionallydemolish; topull down.
    Coordinate terms:break apart,break up,tear down
  8. (intransitive) Tofail, especiallysocially or forpoliticalreasons.
    Coordinate terms:break apart,break up
    Talksbroke down between Prime Minister John Doe and the opposition party.
    Relationsbroke down between Greece and Turkey.
  10. (intransitive, idiomatic) Togive in orgive up: relent, concede, surrender.
    Is it worth taking it to a repair shop, or should I justbreak down and buy a new one?
  12. (ergative, figuratively) To render or to becomeunstable due to stress, tocollapse physically or mentally.
    Near-synonym:come undone
    She is back to work now, after shebroke down the other day.
    • 1921,Ben Travers,A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday, Page & Company, published1925,→OCLC:
      Sophiabroke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.
    • 1936 Sept. 15,F. Scott Fitzgerald,letter to Beatrice Dance:
      As toErnest... He is quite as nervouslybroken down as I am but it manifests itself in different ways. His inclination is towards megalomania and mine towards melancholy.
  14. (ergative, figuratively) To render or to becomeweak andineffective.
    Coordinate terms:wear away,wear down
    His authority and influence over his coordinatesbroke down gradually.
    • 2012 June 2, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Belgium”, inBBC Sport:
      Hodgson's approach may not illuminate proceedings in Poland and Ukraine but early evidence suggests they will be tough tobreak down.
  16. (ergative) To (cause to)decay, todecompose.
    Leaves and grass willbreak down into compost faster if you keep them moist.
  18. To separate into a number of parts.
    Near-synonyms:break apart,break up,take apart,tear down,tear up
    • 1950 June, N. H. Bousfield, “Angers, a French Provincial Railway Centre”, inRailway Magazine, page371:
      The goods station is a transhipment centre (centre de transbordement) at which loads made up at other centres arebroken down and redespatched to destinations in the area.
    • 1973 December 29, “Lesbian Questionnaire”, inGay Community News, volume 1, number28, page 1:
      Meetings began in June and shortly after the group of twelve women decided tobreak-down into two sub groups in order to examine the subject more efficiently.
  20. (ergative, figuratively) Todivide into parts to give more details, to provide a moreindepth analysis of.
    Near-synonym:analyze
    If you don't understand, ask him tobreak down the numbers for you.
  22. (ergative) Todigest.
    Near-synonym:catabolize
    His stomach took a while tobreak down his food.
    His food took a while tobreak down in his stomach.

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(machine) to stop functioning
(computer) to stop functioning
(vehicle) to stop functioning
to collapse unexpectedly, physically or in structure
to pull down intentionally
to cease to function; (other than above)
to fail, especially socially or for political reasons
to become unstable or collapse, mentally or otherwise
to become weak and ineffective
to decay
to divide into parts for analysis
to digest

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breakdown

  1. Misspelling ofbreakdown.

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