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break down
Found in thesaurus: change, modify, alter, do, act, behave, separate, change integrity, break, bust, get, suffer, sustain
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break down
v.
break, collapse under its own weight; spoil, decompose
broke down
collapsed, shattered; went out of working order, got ruined
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Breakdown
Breakdown may refer to:
Breaking down
- Breakdown (vehicle), failure of a motor vehicle in such a way that it cannot be operated
- Chemical decomposition, also called chemical breakdown, the breakdown of a substance into simpler components
- Decomposition, the process by which tissues of a dead organism break down into simpler forms of matter
- Drop set, also called a breakdown, a bodybuilding and weight training technique
- Electrical breakdown, the failure of an electric circuit or a rapid reduction in the resistance of an electrical insulator that can lead to a spark
- Mental breakdown, an acute, time-limited phase of exhibiting symptoms of a specific order, most commonly, depression and anxiety.
- Script breakdown, a step in the production of a play, film, or comic book
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break down
Verb
1. make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features; "analyze a specimen"; "analyze a sentence"; "analyze a chemical compound"
(synonym) analyze, analyse, dissect, take apart
(hyponym) parse
(derivation) breakdown, partitioning
2. make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"
(synonym) crush
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
(derivation) dislocation, breakdown
3. lose control of one's emotions; "When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely"; "When her baby died, she snapped"
(synonym) lose it, snap
(hypernym) act, behave, do
(hyponym) dissolve
(derivation) breakdown, crack-up
4. stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"
(synonym) fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break
(hypernym) change
(hyponym) crash, go down
(verb-group) die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass
(derivation) breakdown, equipment failure
5. separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
(synonym) decompose, break up
(hypernym) separate
(hyponym) digest
(classification) chemistry, chemical science
6. fall apart; "the building crimbled after the explosion"; "Negociations broke down"
(synonym) crumble, crumple, tumble, collapse
(hypernym) change integrity
7. cause to fall or collapse
(hypernym) break, bust
(cause) crumble, crumple, tumble, collapse
8. collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
(synonym) collapse
(hypernym) suffer, sustain, have, get
(hyponym) fall over, go over
(derivation) breakdown, crack-up
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break down
v.
porouchat se; nezdařit se; rozebrat, analyzovat; rozložit (se); zhroutit se
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break down
fail, not operate, out of order If that copier breaks down again I'm going to give it away.
