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Noun break down has 4 senses
- dislocation, breakdown - the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue; "the social dislocations resulting from government policies"; "his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London"
--1 is a kind of disruption, perturbation
- breakdown, crack-up - a mental or physical breakdown
--2 is a kind of collapse
--2 has particulars: nervous breakdown
- breakdown, equipment failure - a cessation of normal operation; "there was a power breakdown"
--3 is a kind of failure
--3 has particulars:
- breakdown, partitioning - an analysis into mutually exclusive categories
--4 is a kind of analysis, analytic thinking
--4 has particulars: resolution, resolving
Verb break down has 8 senses
- analyze, analyse, break down, dissect, take apart - 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"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- break down, crush - make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"
--2 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- break down, lose it, snap - 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"
--3 is one way to act, behave, do
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue break down
- fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down - 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"
--4 is one way to change
Sample sentence:
These cars won't break down
- decompose, break up, break down - separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
--5 is one way to separate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse - fall apart; "the building crimbled after the explosion"; "Negociations broke down"
--6 is one way to change integrity
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- break down - cause to fall or collapse
--7 is one way to break, bust
Sample sentence:
They want to break down the doors
- break down, collapse - collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
--8 is one way to suffer, sustain, have, get
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue break down
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