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Synonyms for break-down

32 synonyms
2 meanings

verb
noun

Most common

break apart tear up give way collapse weaken come undone

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Break — to separate into a number of parts

break, break apart, take down, take apart, tear up, dissect

2. Collapse

collapse, give out, decompose, analyze US, analyse UK, crush, give way, go bad, go wrong, lose it, snap, go, crap out, overwhelm, crumble, fail, conk out informal, crumple, tumble, die

Other

separate, weaken, come undone, catabolize rare

Noun

break-up, tear-down, pull-down

Definitions

v. 1
To separate into a number of parts.
Near-synonyms: break apart, break up, take apart, tear down, tear up
v. 2
To stop functioning.
I am afraid my computer will break down if I try to run it at too high a speed.

Related words

Word family: breakdown
Other spellings: break down

Forms

Plural: break-downs → break-ups, tear-downs, pull-downs…

Example sentences

collapse We can't stay here. The roof is about to collapse!
weaken This could profoundly weaken the Algerian economy.

By length

2 letters: go¹
3 letters: die¹
4 letters: fail¹, snap¹
5 letters: break¹, crush¹
6 letters: weaken², tumble²
7 letters: analyze³, analyse, crumble², dissect², crumple²
8 letters: separate³, collapse²
9 letters: overwhelm³, decompose³
10 letters: catabolize

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (weaken² = 2 syllables).