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Break down has 10 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Noun
1

Misspelling of breakdown.

Verb
1

make ineffective

"Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"

2

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"

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"

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"

5

fall apart

"the building crumbled after the explosion"

"Negotiations broke down"

6

cause to fall or collapse

7

separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts

8

collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack

9

To fail, to cease to function.

Example Sentences
"Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination" verb
"analyze a specimen" verb
"analyze a sentence" verb
"analyze a chemical compound" verb
"When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely" verb
"When her baby died, she snapped" verb
"The engine finally went" verb
"The car died on the road" verb
"The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town" verb
"The coffee maker broke" verb
Related Terms
Antonyms
synthesise
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
change act change integrity break separate suffer
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
parse botanize dissolve die fall apart crash blow out misfire malfunction digest dissociate crack drop like flies fall over
Rhyming Words
own sown town lown mown gown rown down adown known grown frown shown brown sdown coown blown clown crown drown
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