DICTOMETER

BREAK DOWN

(break down)

1. Synonyms:
   • Dislocation
   • Breakdown
   Definitions:
   • the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
   Examples:
   • The social dislocations resulting from government policies
   • His warning came after the breakdown of talks in London
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Breakdown
   • Crack-up
   Definitions:
   • a mental or physical breakdown
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Breakdown
   • Equipment failure
   Definitions:
   • a cessation of normal operation
   Examples:
   • There was a power breakdown
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Breakdown
   • Partitioning
   Definitions:
   • an analysis into mutually exclusive categories
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Break down
   • Crush
   Definitions:
   • make ineffective
   Examples:
   • Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Analyze
   • Analyse
   • Break down
   • Dissect
   • Take apart
   Definitions:
   • make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of
   • break down into components or essential features
   Examples:
   • Analyze a specimen
   • Analyze a sentence
   • Analyze a chemical compound
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Break down
   • Lose it
   • Snap
   Definitions:
   • lose control of one's emotions
   Examples:
   • When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely
   • When her baby died, she snapped
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Fail
   • Go bad
   • Give way
   • Die
   • Give out
   • Conk out
   • Go
   • Break
   • Break down
   Definitions:
   • stop operating or functioning
   Examples:
   • 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
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Crumble
   • Crumple
   • Tumble
   • Break down
   • Collapse
   Definitions:
   • fall apart
   Examples:
   • The building crumbled after the explosion
   • Negotiations broke down
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Break down
   Definitions:
   • cause to fall or collapse
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Decompose
   • Break up
   • Break down
   Definitions:
   • separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Break down
   • Collapse
   Definitions:
   • collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack