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breakdown

English

  1. 🔊 an analysis into mutually exclusive categories
  2. 🔊 a cessation of normal operation
    “there was a power breakdown”
  3. 🔊 a mental or physical breakdown
  4. 🔊 the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
    “the social dislocations resulting from government policies”
  5. 🔊 (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action

Spanish

  1. 🔊 descompostura breakdown
  2. 🔊 desconcierto breakdown
  3. 🔊 resquebrajamiento breakdown
  4. 🔊 quebrantamiento breakdown, disruption (of established social order)

Similar words

dislocation partitioning equipment failure decomposition rot rotting putrefaction crack-up analysis analyzation anatomizing anatomy assay assaying bankruptcy bloodless revolution bouleversement breakage breaking down breaking up breakup cataclysm catastrophe cave