From en.wiktionary.org:
[breakdown]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
*** Verb
[break < ,,broke,broken> down]
1. [en] [en] To stop functioning .
2. [en] [en] To unexpectedly collapse , physically or in structure .
3. [en] [en] To intentionally demolish ; to pull down .
4. [en] [en] To fail , especially socially or for political reason s.
5. [en] [en] To give in or give up : relent, concede, surrender.
6. [en] [en] To render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally.
7. * [passage=Sophia BROKE DOWN here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.]
8. * 1936 SEPT. 15 , [F. Scott Fitzgerald] , letter (see https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=9lMbAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT4795) to Beatrice Dance:
9. *: As to [Ernest Hemingway] ... He is quite as nervously BROKEN DOWN as I am but it manifests itself in different ways. His inclination is towards megalomania and mine towards melancholy.
10. [en] [en] To render or to become weak and ineffective .
11. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=June 2, 2012 | author=Phil McNulty | work=BBC Sport
|title=England 1-0 Belgium (see
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18294160) |passage=Hodgson's approach
may not illuminate proceedings in Poland and Ukraine but early evidence
suggests they will be tough to BREAK DOWN.}}
1. [en] [en] To (cause to) decay , to decompose .
2. [en] To separate into a number of parts.
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. [en] [en] To divide into parts to give more details, to provide a more indepth analysis of.
6. [en] [en] To digest .
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[(machine) to stop functioning]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] [slang]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[(computer) to stop functioning]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] [coll.] , [de] [freeze] , [de] [program break]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[(vehicle) to stop functioning]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
[trans-bottom]
[to collapse unexpectedly, physically or in structure]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] [building] , [de] , [de]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[to pull down intentionally]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- German: [de] [building] , [de] [exalted]
[trans-bottom]
[to cease to function; (other than above)]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] [vulgar]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] [coll.]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Old Saxon: [osx]
- Persian: [fa]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [DEA]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[to fail, especially socially or for political reasons]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] [negotiations]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[to become unstable or collapse, mentally or otherwise]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] [coll.] , [de] [coll.]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[to become weak and ineffective]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[to decay]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Walloon: [wa]
[trans-bottom]
[to divide into parts for analysis]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to digest]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Turkish: [tr]
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**** See also
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] .
*** See also
- melt down