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Synonyms for break down
break down
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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break down, crushverb
make ineffective
"Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"
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vanquish, decompose, crush, analyze, conk out, beat, fail, snap, suppress, go bad, tumble, break up, trounce, smash, give way, collapse, demolish, beat out, analyse, break, give out, crumble, go, squash, squeeze, crumple, die, dissect, mash, oppress, take apart, lose it, squelch, jam, shellanalyze, analyse, break down, dissect, take apartverb
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"
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go, examine, conk out, give way, psychoanalyse, discerp, dismantle, psychoanalyze, disassemble, collapse, dismember, crush, dissect, canvass, analyse, break, take apart, study, lose it, snap, crumble, decompose, break up, die, tumble, break apart, canvas, analyze, fail, give out, crumple, go badbreak down, lose it, snapverb
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"
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go, conk out, snatch up, click, give way, shoot, tear, bust, collapse, snarl, crush, dissect, analyse, break, take apart, die, lose it, snap, crumble, decompose, crack, break up, give out, tumble, photograph, snatch, analyze, fail, crumple, flick, rupture, go badfail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break downverb
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"
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peter out, function, crumble, give off, perish, break away, give way, unwrap, hold out, run, endure, lead, give out, hand out, split up, conk out, operate, dampen, travel, collapse, last, go wrong, bomb, transgress, discontinue, founder, weaken, go away, crumple, bump, discover, demote, stop, go, take apart, move, damp, ease up, rifle, separate, decompose, miscarry, split, run low, die out, cash in one's chips, dissect, smash, pause, move over, spoil, pass out, pass away, get out, drop dead, fracture, relegate, bring out, violate, reveal, divulge, part, betray, let on, blend in, run short, get around, get going, locomote, intermit, wear out, expire, lose it, check, break dance, break-dance, live, give-up the ghost, kick the bucket, breach, blend, burst, give, plump, crack, ruin, run down, fit, erupt, emit, better, flush it, belong, tumble, offend, go bad, become flat, survive, crush, get, disclose, break off, snuff it, bust, flunk, become, give away, break up, analyse, live on, interrupt, break out, croak, run out, choke, poop out, pop off, pall, sound, fall in, soften, go against, let out, come apart, neglect, extend, start, depart, kick downstairs, distribute, decease, die, pass, proceed, infract, exit, conk, fail, buy the farm, bankrupt, hold up, develop, expose, break, analyze, fall apart, break in, snap off, snap, yield, work, cave in, wear, recrudescecrumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapseverb
fall apart
"the building crumbled after the explosion"; "Negotiations broke down"
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topple, crease, collapse, analyze, buckle, crack, crack up, rumple, cave in, fail, snap, twig, whirl, go bad, tumble, break up, decay, cotton on, give, crock up, knit, get wise, conk out, analyse, whirl around, fall apart, give out, crumble, cockle, catch on, go, fall in, get onto, wrinkle, break, crumple, pucker, die, decompose, get it, latch on, dissect, give way, crush, take apart, dilapidate, burst, lose it, crinkle, founder, tipbreak downverb
cause to fall or collapse
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go, conk out, give way, collapse, crush, dissect, analyse, break, take apart, die, lose it, snap, crumble, decompose, break up, give out, tumble, analyze, fail, crumple, go baddecompose, break up, break downverb
separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
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rot, fragmentise, fragmentize, decompose, collapse, analyze, interrupt, conk out, crumple, crash, split up, pick, fail, snap, moulder, analyse, go bad, dismantle, break up, recess, decay, part, crock up, molder, sever, cut off, fragment, dissect, split, crumble, disperse, separate, disrupt, give out, dissipate, go, dissolve, give way, disintegrate, crack, disassemble, break apart, lose it, die, calve, scatter, resolve, take apart, dispel, adjourn, break, crack up, tumble, crushbreak down, collapseverb
collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
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go, conk out, give way, crack up, founder, give, collapse, cave in, crush, dissect, analyse, break, take apart, die, lose it, snap, crumble, decompose, burst, break up, give out, tumble, crack, fall in, analyze, fail, crumple, crock up, go bad
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freaking out
(of a machine or motor vehicle) suddenly cease to function.
"his van broke down"
Submitted by rinat on August 19, 2019
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The only thing I really remember from the whole plane ride is I just kind of went through periods of -- I just stared at the back of the seat the whole time, trying to get my mind to wrap around what I'm hearing, it's almost kind of like, this isn't really happening. And I( was) just more of in a state of shock. I would go through periods of shaking and then I would kind of start to lose it a little bit and break down and cry. And it was kind of just a circle and the plane rides just seemed like they took forever.
When she started talking about the particulars of Julius's case, how this or that should have been pointed out early on. I was like,' Yeah, she's gon na be a tenacious lawyer -- like her dad,' you can tell how serious she was. It was amazing to see her break down certain things and, you know, you're usually looking at her fashion.
That's where cases break down, if they do appreciate the wrongfulness of what they did, it doesn't meet the legal standard for insanity.
Whole food carbohydrates take longer to break down into simple sugars, and a part of them — the fiber — ca n’t be broken down at all, this means that whole, intact grains do n’t cause the same spikes in blood sugar that we experience when we eat simple sugars. Blood sugar spikes trigger insulin spikes, which can destabilize our blood glucose and … be the underlying cause of health problems in the long run.
Gravis Marketing President Doug Kaplan:
It’s a hard message to break down. ‘Make America great’ is a hard thing to tear apart, what her goal is, is to show that when Trump’s saying ‘Make America Great Again’ [he] means make America great for some people, not everyone. … Her message is inclusive, not exclusive.
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- انفصالArabic
- zhroutit seCzech
- καταρρέωGreek
- paneiEsperanto
- transtornarse, desglosar, fallar, descomponerse, averiarse, echarse a perderSpanish
- از کار افتادنPersian
- hajota, maatua, murtua, luhistuaFinnish
- craquer, décomposer, analyser, se décomposer, tomber en panneFrench
- विभाजनHindi
- felmondja a szolgálatotHungarian
- 壊れるJapanese
- მოიშალა, გაფუჭდაGeorgian
- falen, stukgaan, ontbinden, kapotgaanDutch
- demolirPortuguese
- сломатьRussian
- 分解Chinese
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