Breakdown is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BREAKDOWN in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a collapse, a failure
• a mechanical failure
• a failure of a relationship or system
• the chemical or physical decomposition of something
• an explanatory analysis, especially of statistics
• act or instance of breaking down
• The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.
• A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.
• Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
• the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
• a mental or physical breakdown
• a cessation of normal operation
• an analysis into mutually exclusive categories
• a sudden collapse in someone's mental health
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the action or result of breaking down; as a failure to function; failure to progress or have effect; disintegration; a physical, mental, or nervous collapse; the process of decomposing; division into categories; classification; an account analyzed into categories

Words related to BREAKDOWN

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Words that contain BREAKDOWN

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How to use BREAKDOWN in a sentence

• Sooner or later he would learn that they were hopeless, and Sinclair dreaded the breakdown which he knew would follow that discovery.
• She was a young provincial girl staying in a boarding-house at Hornsey, on the Great Northern line out of London, and she was suffering from nervous breakdown.
• Perhaps a mental breakdown was responsible for this alteration.
• I force myself to keep going when I wonder how the miserable machine responds to my urging, and I shall keep it going, after a fashion, until the final breakdown.
• The entire absence of labour, and the complete breakdown of internal administration and communication had produced stark want in the presence of plenty.
• Poor kind-hearted souls, they got in a great state, and understood about as much of the cause of my breakdown as I do of the inside of the moon.
• But little did she realize, even then, as she hid the Manuscript and prepared to flee, how terrible had been the breakdown of the Second Revolt.
• A hand-pump is also supplied by which the driver can keep the proper amount when the machine is still or in case of a breakdown.
• Before the break-down of their culture, this stone had been sprinkled with water, or anointed with cocoanut-oil, and covered with a black cloth, as in Hawaii.
• We are witnessing a breakdown of all external forms of authority which, while salutary and necessary, is also perilous.
• The realization of that possibility was the beginning we seek, and we today are witnesses of the train of events involved in the breakdown of an eternal past equilibrium.
• Not until she carried the lead-bar clean away and danced a break-down on it and the traces, did she behave decently.
• I have wasted my youth, neglected my talents and opportunities, and whatever the world may call me I am a wretched breakdown.
• The first state means the approach of a nervous breakdown, the second a near death.
• Renan even represented the righteous anger at Jerusalem as a mere nervous breakdown after the idyllic expectations of Galilee.
• Influenza coming on the top of that miserable breakdown is a thing to be treated with the greatest care.
• In the utter breakdown and confusion of his plans and his ideas, it was the one definite thought he clung to, as a swimmer in a whirlpool clings to a rock.
• And all the time the dread of a breakdown in the rusted machinery, and the escape of the murderer from the just penalty of his crimes.
• I saw that she was on the verge of a breakdown, and I knew that my own resolution was failing.
• The seventh lead wagon was an extra, which Jo had decided to use only in case of a breakdown.
• I heard of many instances of nervous breakdown, but I witnessed surprisingly few of them.
• The result was a terrible breakdown in the administration of the war department, disastrous to the ministry, the army, and the country.
• In 1906 she returned to California and expected to meet her father at the station, but he was taken suddenly ill and died shortly after from a nervous breakdown.
• I had frequently heard, during my boyhood, of a supposed mental breakdown about this period, and had asked my father for a description of it in the letter from which I am quoting.
• Sometimes these people were in a dreadful state of nervous breakdown.
• The second act came to an end without another breakdown, but Charmian felt more doubtful about the opera than she had felt after the first act.
• Fifth, that Denry drove right past the breakdown, apparently not noticing it.
• At first it was physical breakdown, later, thought came crowding.
• It was very seldom that her equanimity was disturbed, only in fact when her deepest feelings were concerned, and this made her breakdown the more complete.
• The lesson hour is the very heart and center of the school work, and failure here means a breakdown of the whole system.

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