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| NOUN: | 1. A sudden sharp decline in mental, emotional, or physical health: breakdown. Informal : crackup. See EXPLOSION. 2. An abrupt disastrous failure: breakdown, crash, debacle, smash, smashup, wreck. See MONEY. 3. A disastrous overwhelming defeat or ruin: downfall, fall, waterloo. See THRIVE. | | VERB: | 1. To give way mentally and emotionally: break (down), crack, snap. Informal : crack up, fold. See EXPLOSION. 2. To fall in: buckle, cave in, crumple, give, go. Idioms: give way. See EXPLOSION. 3. To suddenly lose all health or strength: break (down), cave in, crack, drop, give out, succumb. Informal : crack up. Slang : conk out. Idioms: give way. See HEALTH. 4. To undergo sudden financial failure: break, bust, crash, fail, go under. Informal : fold. Idioms: go belly up, go bust, go on the rocks, go to the wall. See MONEY. 5. To undergo capture, defeat, or ruin: fall, go down, go under, surrender, topple. See RESIST, WIN.
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