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单词 break down
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break down

phrasal verb with break uk/breɪk/us/breɪk/verb broke, broken

(MACHINE)

B2 If a machine or vehicle breaks down, it stops working:

Our car broke down and we had to push it off the road.

More examples

  • The school bus broke down and had to be towed to the nearest garage.
  • Oh no - has your washing machine broken down again?
  • I'm worried that his car has broken down, or worse still, that he's had an accident.
  • If the central heating breaks down again, I will refuse to pay the repair bill.
  • Our dishwasher broke down just a month after the guarantee had expired.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Machines - not functioning

  • act
  • burn
  • cut
  • deactivate
  • dead
  • defunct
  • disable
  • fritz
  • give up the ghost idiom
  • haywire
  • on the blink idiom
  • out of commission idiom
  • seize
  • shudder
  • shut
  • shut (sth) off
  • stop
  • unusable
  • whack
  • wrong

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(COMMUNICATION)

If a system, relationship, or discussion breaks down, it fails because there is a problem or disagreement.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Causing something to end

  • abandon
  • all good things (must) come to an end idiom
  • and have done with it idiom
  • be over the hump idiom
  • bitter
  • draw
  • knock off (sth)
  • lay
  • lay sth to rest idiom
  • lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
  • leave it at that idiom
  • leave off (sth/doing sth)
  • lid
  • lift
  • raise
  • suppression
  • the curtain falls on sth idiom
  • to the bitter end idiom
  • top sth off
  • walk

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(CRY)

to be unable to control your feelings and to start to cry:

When we gave her the bad news, she broke down and cried.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Weeping and crying

  • bawl
  • bucket
  • burst
  • burst out laughing/crying idiom
  • crocodile tears
  • crumple
  • dissolve
  • dry your eyes idiom
  • lachrymose
  • mist
  • mist (sth) over/up
  • misty-eyed
  • not a dry eye in the house idiom
  • not know whether to laugh or cry idiom
  • sniffle
  • snuffle
  • tear 1
  • weep
  • weepy
  • wept

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