Thesaurus: breakdown

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1. n. The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.
2. n. 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.
3. n. Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
4. n. the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
5. n. a mental or physical breakdown
6. n. (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
7. n. a cessation of normal operation
8. n. an analysis into mutually exclusive categories
9. n. (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance
10. 1. The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall. 2. (a) 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. (b) Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time. [U.S.] Don't clear out when the quadrilles are over, for we are going to have a breakdown to wind up with. New Eng. Tales.
11. n:100 n. a mental or physical breakdown n. a cessation of normal operation n. an analysis into mutually exclusive categories