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breakdown

Definition for breakdown

noun as in nervous collapse

noun as in account of finances or other business

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Example Sentences

The breakdown of the 114th Congress is 80 percent white, 80 percent male, and 92 percent Christian.

Truth be told, there is no one better at capturing the agony and alarm of a woman in the throes of a nervous breakdown than Moore.

No other neighborhood in Rome has the same demographic breakdown.

She remembers, of course, being tantalized by the tantalizing opening breakdown scene.

So definitely in that breakdown I used every bit of my personal life.

Assuredly, this was an occasion when the sacrifice of a few minutes might avoid the grave risk of a breakdown after daybreak.

A coward by nature, he had been on the verge of a nervous breakdown before the trial, thinking of what might happen.

He had been ailing for several weeks; as his son had remarked, his handwriting had been the first symptom of the breakdown.

It was a complete breakdown, pitiful from its contrast with the man's herculean physique and fine, if contracted, features.

This alternative arrangement was a stand-by in case of breakdown of the steam pipes to these engines.

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On this page you'll find 65 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to breakdown, such as: disintegration, disruption, failure, mishap, nervous breakdown, and neurasthenia.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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