breakdown
b rayk down
- n the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London - n a mental or physical breakdown
- n a cessation of normal operation
there was a power breakdown - n an analysis into mutually exclusive categories
- Medically there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown.
- The first efforts of the four Allied zone commanders to alleviate the Berlin crisis at the "working level" resulted in complete breakdownso complete that immediate.
- Reports in Lebanon suggest the reason for the breakdown is that Michel Aoun, the leader of a Christian party allied with Hizballah, is unhappy that his son-in-law wasn't .