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English

1. 🔊 collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
2. 🔊 make ineffective
   “Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination”
3. 🔊 cause to fall or collapse
4. 🔊 lose control of one's emotions
   “When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely”
5. 🔊 separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
6. 🔊 make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of
   “analyze a specimen”
7. 🔊 fall apart
   “the building crumbled after the explosion”
8. 🔊 stop operating or functioning
   “The engine finally went”

Spanish

1. 🔊 averiar to break down
2. 🔊 descomponer to break down
3. 🔊 desvencijar to break down
4. 🔊 echar abajo to break down
5. 🔊 derrumbar to break down, to slump
6. 🔊 desglosar to break down, itemize (explain)
7. 🔊 hundir to break down, go to pieces, fall apart
8. 🔊 quebrantar to break down, to be broken (typically used figuratively)

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