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Synonyms for breakdown
ˈbreɪkˌdaʊnbreak·down
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Wiktionary
breakdownnoun
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degradationbreakdownnoun
A failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed
We saw a breakdown by the side of the road.
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degradationbreakdownnoun
A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability
After so much stress, he suffered a breakdown and simply gave up.
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degradationbreakdownnoun
Listing, division or categorization in great detail
Looking at the breakdown of the budget, I see a few items we could cut.
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degradationbreakdownnoun
Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements.
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degradationbreakdownnoun
A musical technique, by where the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, and can vary in heaviness depending on the genre
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degradationbreakdownnoun
A loss of organization (of the parts of a system)
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degradation
Princeton's WordNet
dislocation, breakdownnoun
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"
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partitioning, dislocation, disruption, equipment failure, crack-upbreakdown, crack-upnoun
a mental or physical breakdown
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partitioning, dislocation, equipment failure, crack-upbreakdown, equipment failurenoun
a cessation of normal operation
"there was a power breakdown"
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partitioning, dislocation, equipment failure, crack-upbreakdown, partitioningnoun
an analysis into mutually exclusive categories
Synonyms:
sectionalisation, equipment failure, crack-up, partitioning, dislocation, division, partition, sectionalization, segmentation
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Editors Contribution
anomie
the vacuum state of social or ethical standards.
inappropriate cussing is a breakdown of our social standards.
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "breakdown":
ventilation, disaggregation, collapse, distribution, rupture, decomposition, drill-down, disintegration, failure, ventilating, break-up, allocation, break-down, apportionment, degradation, breakup, decay, break, disaggregate, breakage, venting, drilldown, breakdowns, disruption, breaking, breach, meltdown, disaggregated, fracture, dissolution, outage, deterioration, interruption
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1147 | division | |
#1219 | distribution | |
#1618 | break | |
#2278 | failure | |
#2666 | breaking | |
#5488 | allocation | |
#7052 | collapse | |
#7864 | breakdown | |
#8256 | partition | |
#9001 | breach | |
#10134 | decay | |
#10709 | ventilation | |
#11185 | degradation | |
#14595 | fracture | |
#14991 | decomposition | |
#15079 | disruption | |
#15936 | segmentation | |
#17400 | interruption | |
#17507 | dissolution | |
#18311 | deterioration | |
#19682 | partitioning | |
#20662 | outage | |
#24292 | rupture | |
#29142 | breakup | |
#30162 | venting | |
#31174 | breakage | |
#31178 | apportionment | |
#32885 | meltdown | |
#34106 | dislocation | |
#35196 | breakdowns | |
#38113 | disintegration | |
#48748 | ventilating | |
#50292 | disaggregated | |
#77445 | disaggregation | |
#109090 | disaggregate | |
#142769 | drilldown |
How to use breakdown in a sentence?
We were just really praying for the rain to calm down, at that moment I felt like I was about to have a breakdown.
To have a commission like this to find out who was responsible, what went wrong, to make sure it never happens again, it should be a no-brainer, you look at what happened on 9/11 when we were attack by foreign terrorists and we wanted to find out immediately : where was the breakdown, what happened and why. Well, this is no different.
Fracking just isn't part of the future if the government is serious about avoiding climate breakdown.
We are going through a political nervous breakdown here in the UK. We have potential prime ministers being elected by the Conservative Party now, (and) in the shape of the leader of the opposition, who do not have the standing that we have become used to in our top leadership, whether people can develop that when they become prime minister, we will have to wait and see, in terms of the candidates for the Conservative leadership.
Republican leadership can't get The President on board with anything, the breakdown of compromise is poisoning this Congress and it all comes down to President Trump.
Translations for breakdown
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- انفصالArabic
- разкъсване, повреда, колапс, разчленяване, счупване, анализ, аварияBulgarian
- Panne, Nervenzusammenbruch, Aufschlüsselung, BetriebsstörungGerman
- βλάβη, κατάρρευση, διαίρεση, ταξινόμηση, ανάλυση, κλονισμόςGreek
- avería, desglose, panne, descompostura, ataque de nervios, colapso nervioso, panaSpanish
- murtuminen, rikkoontuminen, erittely, breikki, hajoaminen, vika, romahdus, hajottaminen, rikkoutuminenFinnish
- dégradation, crise de nerfs, panne, détailFrench
- avariaItalian
- 故障Japanese
- panne, defect, zenuwinstorting, stilstand, ineenstorting, uitsplitsing, afbraak, opsplitsing, instorting, opdeling, inzakking, openbreking, mankementDutch
- awariaPolish
- colapso, avariaPortuguese
- поломка, аварияRussian
- havária, poruchaSlovak
- sammanbrott, nedbrytningSwedish
- خرابیUrdu
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