| 单词 | break down |
| 释义 | break down (once / 393 pages) 1v 2v WORD FAMILY break down: breaking down, breaks down, broke down, broken down USAGE EXAMPLES“Stress, anger and sadness break down the immune system. Sound is part of what I do daily to counterbalance that.” Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) It is about comradeship and community and breaking down barriers. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Proposed peace talks broke down in October when the rebels failed to release a hostage they were holding. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1v stop operating or functioning Syn|Hypo|Hyper break, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad break render inoperable or ineffective buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff itpass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life crash, go down stop operating blow, blow out, burn outmelt, break, or become otherwise unusable misfirefail to fire or detonate malfunction, misfunctionfail to function or function improperly jamget stuck and immobilized change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 2v fall apart Negotiations broke down Syn|Hyper collapse, crumble, crumple, tumble change integrity change in physical make-up 3v collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack Syn|Hypo|Hyper collapse drop like flies rapidly collapse, die, or drop out in large numbers fall over, go overfall forward and down get, have, suffer, sustain undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) 4v cause to fall or collapse Hyper break, bust ruin completely 5v make ineffective Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination Syn|Hyper crush alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 6v lose control of one's emotions 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper lose it, snap dissolve lose control emotionally diebe brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame fall apart, go to pieceslose one's emotional or mental composure act, behave, do behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself 1v make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features Syn|Ant|Hypo analyse, analyze, dissect, take apart synthesise, synthesize combine so as to form a more complex, product parse analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence) botanise, botanizecollect and study plants 2v separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts Syn|Hypo|Hyper break up, decompose digest soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture dissociateto undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms crackreduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking separate divide into components or constituents |
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