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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181 The civil war has aggravated this situation, causing a breakdown in family life, such as it was.
182 A breakdown of the trades involved in the faults appears to show bricklayers at the top of the blacklist.
183 No, they suffer from an altogether different, better class of marital breakdown.
184 In 1878 she gave up teaching for two years, following a breakdown in health.
185 The most direct pressures come from welfare incentives for family breakdown and tax penalties for male providers.
186 The internal conflicts caused by his strong Quaker beliefs and lack of prospects caused a breakdown when he was twenty-one.
187 The people who hired us said they all thought I was having a schizophrenic breakdown.
188 But on closer examination, they reflect the 2560-15 percent breakdown.
189 With work-inhibited students, a breakdown in the independence process appears evident.
190 It was a complete breakdown of a friendship in a way.
191 Right at the beginning of hospital antenatal care, the researchers found there was a risk of a breakdown in communication.
192 The report identified how she was forced to quit her secretarial job and how she suffered a breakdown.
193 Liver damage is known to occur when the breakdown product of a chemical is highly toxic.
194 There is little doubt, then, that the effect of marital breakdown upon the children of the couple concerned is multi-causal.
195 One needed to go on a crash diet, the other was in the middle of a nervous breakdown.
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196 While there is no third party mechanism for determining this, the breakdown into bilateral relationships will continue.
197 His first response to the enormous success of Tubular Bells was to undergo a minor nervous breakdown.
198 Assessing this potential helps the practitioner to decide how best to work with an elder when some breakdown in routine occurs.
199 Usually maintenance work is carried out during the course of repairs following a breakdown.
200 BThe report gave no breakdown of statistics by state or city.
201 For example, faecal incontinence and sleep disturbance are often associated with the breakdown of caring arrangements leading to hospitalisation.
202 The biographer speculated that it may have been failure in his alchemical experiments that led to this breakdown.
203 Do not give yourself a nervous breakdown trying to prepare and cook three courses on the day perfectly and on time.
204 Table 7.2 is a breakdown of the costs of each of the component parts.
205 You will also be held in respect of any particular area of your breakdown to what you have put in your original letter.
206 Indeed these monitoring devices can be arranged to automatically signal a lift breakdown to a remote point by a telephone line.
207 She believed Martin had ended the engagement, and eventually she had a serious mental breakdown.
208 Yesterday, Apple owned up to an apparent breakdown in communications.
209 The real difference is observable in the breakdown of scenes and the manner in which Britten chooses to deploy the dramatic action.
210 Until then the security forces remain the ultimate bulwark against the breakdown of society.
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