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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151. Since the ordeal began, says Mr. Rios, he has seen friends break down in tears.
152. Only if it is correct to design and calculate and doesn't any break down for the deslagging machinery, it can ensure safety and reliability as well as economy operation for boiler unit.
153. The iteration structure defines the existing development lines and the break down of the development lines into iterations.
154. Recently, he helped start a company called Waste2Energy that aims to build a device called an anaerobic digestor that can break down waste from restaurants into usable compost.
155. This would be an intelligent bumper that would extend to touch the car in front, should the main communication system break down.
156. The feedback circuit break down, and dealer or the factory house contact.
157. Learn how to break down and make a tackle as a linebacker in this free video clip on football.
158. To break down the eutectic carbide network of A-cast structure with grain size 4-5 grade[sentencedict.com], tensile strain of 60% is needed.
159. This allows the catalyst to break down the remaining methane into solid carbon and hydrogen gas.
160. CARI CORRIGAN: "They fall all over the Earth, not just Antarctica, but the best places for us to find them are the deserts because they don't get weathered and they don't break down as easily."
161. The advantages of a solid state design is that they do not require pressure to activate, eliminating moving parts that might break down and keeping dirt from getting into the mechanism.
162. Not only possesses LPL-IGBT lower power loss but also the other capacities are no better than NPT-IGBT such as break down voltage, current capacities, safe operation area and cost.
163. She had been waiting for Simon to break down the barrier between them.
164. You'd better check over the car to fix its break down.
165. In Puget Sound[Sentencedict.com], big blooms of sea lettuce often break down in Dumas Bay. This process of rotting uses up oxygen and kills marine life.
166. The balance between intracellular active oxygen production and the defense system might break down in air-dried and dried field samples.
167. The machine uses the Sun's rays and a metal oxide called ceria to break down carbon dioxide or water into fuels which can be stored and transported.
168. "There is no break down and as everybody has said, I will talk to all of the negotiators and reconvene them," he said.
169. Injurying seed coats, phytohormone treatments and chemical treatments can be used to break down dormancy of cucurbit seeds.
170. After each test, no visible damage shall be manifested , nor shall the hermetic seal break down.
171. Many tasks break down into two distinct types of work, however: tasks that only need to read the protected data structures and those that must make changes.
172. If you have a problem with a major life issue like finances, home improvement, child classwork, break down the problem to it’s basic form.
173. If even a few nations demur or cheat, the whole system can break down.
174. Most Americans tend to break down addresses into number street, maybe unit number, city, state, zip code.
175. At the heart of any jazz program are music theory courses that break down this musical genre into its technical parts and look at how jazz music moves between keys, chords, and modes.
176. For the plan of project cost, this thesis took the order of "break down - summary - decomposition" to introduce inductive methods of the cost planning in construction industry.
177. Other performers cross-dress because they seek to break down gender barriers, such as the famous stand-up comedy artist Eddie Izzard.
178. There would be no "planned obsolescence, " where products are deliberately designed to wear out or break down.
179. Now let's break down the additional balance changes we're implementing.
180. Within weeks, in other words, everything would break down and society would be unrecognizable.
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.