BREAK DOWN

Make ineffective

Example: "Martin luther king tried to break down racial discrimination"

• crush  10

Make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features

Example: "Analyze a specimen"

• analyse  10
• analyze  19
• dissect  10
• take apart

• parse  7
• botanise  10
• botanize  19

Lose control of one's emotions

Example: "When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely"

• lose it
• snap  6

• act  5
• behave  14
• do  3

• dissolve  12
• die  4
• fall apart
• go to pieces

Stop operating or functioning

Example: "The engine finally went"

• break  11
• conk out
• die  4
• fail  7
• give out
• give way
• go  3
• go bad

• change  12

• crash  10
• go down
• blow out
• burn out
• • misfire  12
  • malfunction  18
  • misfunction  18
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Fall apart

Example: "The building crumbled after the explosion"

• collapse  12
• crumble  13
• crumple  13
• tumble  10

Cause to fall or collapse

Separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts

• break up
• decompose  16

• separate  10

• digest  8
• dissociate  13

Collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack

• collapse  12

• get  4
• have  10
• suffer  12
• sustain  7

• drop like flies
• fall over
• go over