Definitions for break down
break down

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1. break down, crushverb

   make ineffective

   "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"

2. analyze, 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"

3. break 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"

4. fail, 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"

5. crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapseverb

   fall apart

   "the building crumbled after the explosion"; "Negotiations broke down"

6. break downverb

   cause to fall or collapse

7. decompose, break up, break downverb

   separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts

8. break down, collapseverb

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

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1. break downverb

   to fail, to cease to function

2. break downverb

   to render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally

3. break downverb

   to render or to become weak and ineffective

4. break downverb

   (to cause) to decay, to decompose

5. break downverb

   to divide into parts to give more details, to provide a more indepth analysis of

6. break downverb

   to digest

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1. break down

   Break down is a verb phrase that typically means to separate something into its basic elements for further understanding or analysis. It can also refer to the process of something failing or collapsing, either physically (like a machine malfunctioning) or emotionally (such as a person succumbing to stress or grief). Additionally, it can denote the natural decomposition or degradation of a substance.

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How to pronounce break down?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of break down in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of break down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of break down in a Sentence

1. Russell Wayne Baker:

   Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost.

2. John Brady:

   Unless something happens, my sense is that we're going to continue to break down here a little bit.

3. Martin Binks:

   Your resting metabolic rate is typically described as the total number of calories your body needs while at rest. This is made up of basic functions like supporting your vital organs, muscle and fat tissue and the energy that is required to break down food we eat, your total calorie requirement includes these plus what's needed to move around.

4. 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 what Trump’s saying ‘Make America Great Again’ means make America great for some people, not everyone. … Her message is inclusive not exclusive.

5. Laura MacIntyre:

   Every once and a while, we'll break down and take a shower.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Break_Down
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