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Definition of 'break down'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) break down, crush
make ineffective
"Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"

2. (verb) 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"

3. (verb) 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"

4. (verb) 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"

5. (verb) crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse
fall apart
"the building crumbled after the explosion"; "Negotiations broke down"

6. (verb) break down
cause to fall or collapse

7. (verb) decompose, break up, break down
separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts

8. (verb) break down, collapse
collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack

Definition of 'break down'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) break down
to stop functioning
***Our car broke down.

2.  break down
to fail and not be able to continue
***The peace talks are in danger of breaking down.

3.  break down
to lose control of emotions
***She broke down and cried.

4.  break down
to separate into parts to analyze
to break down the sales figures

5.  break down
to hit sth so that it falls
Police had to break the door down.

6.  break down
to decompose, rot
as the plant matter breaks down

Translation of 'break down'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to use force on (a door etc) to cause it to open.
Afrikaans: iets afbreek	Arabic: يفتح بالقوة	Bulgarian: разбивам
Brazilian: arrombar	Czech: vyrazit, rozrazit	German: aufbrechen
Danish: bryde ind; slå ind	Greek: γκρεμίζω	Spanish: derribar, echar abajo
Estonian: maha murdma	Farsi: با فشار چیزی را باز کردن	Finnish: avata väkivalloin
French: enfoncer	Hebrew: לִפרוֹץ	Hindi: खोलने के लिए दरवाजा इत्या
Croatian: oboriti	Hungarian: letör	Indonesian: mendobrak
Icelandic: brjóta niður	Italian: abbattere	Japanese: こわす
Korean: 부수다	Lithuanian: išlaužti	Latvian: uzlauzt
Malay: pecahkan	Dutch: rammen	Norwegian: bryte ned; slå inn
Polish: wyłamać, sforsować	Persian: با فشار چیزی را باز کردن	Pashto: له فشار سره یو شی خلاصول
Portuguese: arrombar	Romanian: a dărâma, a forţa	Russian: сломать, выломать
Slovak: vyraziť	Slovenian: vdreti	Serbian: razvaliti
Swedish: slå in	Thai: พัง (ประตู)	Turkish: kırarak açmak, yıkmak
Taiwanese: 打破	Ukrainian: зламати	Urdu: طاقت لگانا
Vietnamese: đạp đổ	Chinese: 打破
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