break-down

Verbs

  • (v) make ineffective
    • Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination
    crush,
  • (v) 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
    analyze, dissect, analyse, take apart,
  • (v) 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
    lose it, snap,
  • (v) 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
    conk out, go bad, die, fail, give out, give way, break, go,
  • (v) fall apart
    • the building crumbled after the explosion
    • Negotiations broke down
    crumble, crumple, collapse, tumble,
  • (v) cause to fall or collapse
  • (v) separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts decompose, break up,
  • (v) collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack collapse,

Synonyms

crush analyze dissect analyse take apart lose it snap conk out go bad die fail give out give way break go crumble crumple collapse tumble decompose break up

Antonyms

synthesise synthesize

Words of close approximity