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'breakdown' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'breakdown' with 4 example sentences.


breakdown noun

: the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue

: a mental or physical breakdown

: (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action

: a cessation of normal operation

: an analysis into mutually exclusive categories

: (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance


  • Did your sister have a nervous breakdown?
  • A breakdown in the negotiations will mean war.
  • I think you're partly to blame for the negotiation breakdown.
  • He drives a breakdown lorry.
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