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breakdown noun [ ˈbreɪkdaʊn ]

• a mechanical failure.
• "breakdowns could totally disrupt production"
Similar: malfunction, failure, seizing up, crash, conking out,
• a failure of a relationship or system.
• "a breakdown in military discipline"
Similar: failure, collapse, disintegration, foundering, falling through, fizzling out,
• the chemical or physical decomposition of something.
• "the breakdown of ammonia to nitrites"


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