Synonym: crack-up, dislocation, equipment failure, partitioning. Similar words: break down, break, break in, break off, break out, break up, break away, break into. Meaning: n. 1. the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue 2. a mental or physical breakdown 3. a cessation of normal operation 4. an analysis into mutually exclusive categories.
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121 The figure gives a detailed breakdown of patients included and excluded from the study.
122 Drinking affects personal relationships, causing marriage breakdown and harming the children in the family.
123 Others give a complete breakdown of specialist editors and correspondents.
124 There is a signal box at each end, East and West also the Breakdown Vans, ready when they are wanted.
125 So no one told him he was already heading for a complete nervous breakdown.
126 The importance of the economic support provided by husbands is neatly illustrated by working class women's attitudes towards marriage breakdown.
127 The five main party leaders contesting the general election united to express dismay at the breakdown of the Gatt negotiations.
128 The Diagnostic Key provides a detailed breakdown of the Grammar Test.
129 What he saw was a new form of human organization emerging amid the chaos of breakdown in the feudalistic order.
130 The precautionary motive. Unforeseen circumstances can arise, such as a car breakdown.
131 The breakdown of discipline and morale in the professional officer corps is hardly a state secret.
132 A future with just one screen for all functions would result in rapid family breakdown.
133 Mesobilirubinogen, urobilinogen, and urobilin represent intestinal breakdown products of bilirubin catabolism. 220.
134 Other academic analysts at Williamsburg denied any important connection between the use of welfare and the incidence of illegitimacy and family breakdown.
135 Breakdown of the moral consensus and social cohesion is rife.
136 Such strategies prevent the breakdown of capitalism into class conflicts.
137 Black poverty remains; family breakdown(sentencedict.com/breakdown.html), drug addiction and violence have worsened.
138 Popa, who had headed the Bucharest Military Court since 1987, was known to have suffered a nervous breakdown.
139 Hence the complete and utter mental breakdown of whoever contracts the disease.
140 There looked to be a communications breakdown in the Oxford defence.
141 A horse dies following an ugly breakdown in front of the grandstand on opening day at Santa Anita.
142 A spending breakdown shows the average household spends ￡47.70 on food, ￡47.40 on housing and ￡42.90 on transport.
143 Overlay a transparent sheet used in the preparation of multi-colour artwork showing the colour breakdown.
144 The administrative breakdown of components in the academic career are: research, teaching, and community service.
145 The following detailed breakdown is designed to help those wanting to fund out more about awards available in a particular sector.
146 I don't want him to be unhappy and have a breakdown.
147 Is the problem due to a breakdown in our quality control system?
148 Llangollen Railway staff at work re-railing the breakdown crane and repairing the Permanent Way following the derailment at Glyndyfrdwy.
149 Later that year he suffered a breakdown of health following a severe attack of influenza.
150 These results are now being presented to show a breakdown between Personal and Commercial lines within the portfolio.
More similar words: break down, break, break in, break off, break out, break up, break away, break into, break through, knock down, look down on, drink down, track down, breast, breadth, streak, breathing, out of breath, fibre, breeze, peak, sneak, speak, steak, weaken, speaker, speak up, speak for, so to speak, to speak of.