Synonym: analyse, analyze, break, break up, collapse, conk out, crumble, crumple, crush, decompose, die, dissect, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad, lose it, snap, take apart, tumble. Similar words: break, break out, break up, break off, break in, break away, break into, break through. Meaning: v. 1. make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features 2. make ineffective 3. lose control of one's emotions 4. stop operating or functioning 5. separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts 6. fall apart 7. cause to fall or collapse 8. collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack.
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31. For all the billions, technology can break down.
32. Does the fryer break down into easily manageable parts?
33. It was very delicate and prone to break down.
34. For the whole sample, the comparison reveals that presidential democracies are more likely to break down than parliamentary democracies.
35. If you dozed off and the computer happened to break down, the silence generally woke you.
36. Ideally it should be laid in a fine carpet and not in higgledy-piggledy lumps that bream can break down to easy mouthfuls.
37. Only in a secure Britain can we break down barriers and give people a real sense of fair play.
38. Britain's conservative approach to damages began to break down in the 1980s and the revolution has lately gathered pace.
39. But we had an untrained and undisciplined group, with too many leaders,[www.Sentencedict.com] and things started to break down.
40. The chemicals break down the faeces and obviously kill any bacteria present.
41. Under these conditions, certain species of bacteria break down the waste to form methane gas.
42. Steam will break down the methanol and extract hydrogen to be combined with oxygen from the air.
43. I want the best -- I don't want some inferior model that's going to break down the first time I use it.
44. Optimists say not. Trade negotiations always look as if they were about to break down just before they succeed.
45. Women who nurse their infants need to be careful as well because babies lack the liver enzymes needed to break down caffeine.
46. The best way to prepare citrus for composting is to cut the fruit up so it can break down easier.
47. You can build up or break down your future - you may rise or fall depending on how much you are committed to and prepared for your future. Dr T.P.Chia 
48. Britain stood for political ideals that must prevail if western civilization were not to break down.
49. To break down such barriers, Bow Valley last year decided to re-engineer the way in which it processed and distributed information.
50. These three steps can begin to break down even the largest schools into more genuine teaching and learning communities.
51. The speed at which things wear out and break down rises fast when everything you own is cheap.
52. Sometimes, such defences can be almost impossible to break down on a person-to-person level.
53. Better that negotiations should break down than such difficulties be suppressed: a merger which fails is potentially disastrous.
54. Worm casts have been shown to contain enzymes which continue to break down organic matter even after they have been excreted.
55. No cream whether made of placenta or the brains of aborted the whole woman foetuses or ground glass will break down cellulite.
56. Trading Bonds for a pitcher is an unacceptable risk because pitchers break down so frequently.
57. It is above all a joyous celebration of all who break down barriers between people set up by authority.
58. Many cancers rely on collagenase to break down collagen in connective tissues.
59. On a global turnover of ￡656 million in 1991/2, the geographical break down was: U.S. 38.4%.
60. The rigid class distinctions which characterised British society are beginning to break down.
More similar words: break, break out, break up, break off, break in, break away, break into, break through, drink down, knock down, track down, look down on, breast, streak, breathing, out of breath, breeze, peak, sneak, steak, speak, weaken, speak up, speak for, speaker, so to speak, to speak of, down, downs, get down.