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(verb) collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack |
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Synonyms: collapse |
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Related Words: fall over, go over |
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(verb) make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination" |
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Synonyms: crush |
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Related Words: alter, change |
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(verb) cause to fall or collapse |
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Related Words: break, bust |
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(verb) lose control of one's emotions; "When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely" |
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Synonyms: lose it |
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Related Words: act, behave, die, do, fall apart, go to pieces |
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(verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features; "analyze a specimen"; "analyze a sentence"; "analyze a chemical compound" |
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Synonyms: analyse, analyze, dissect, take apart |
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Related Words: botanise, botanize, parse |
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(verb) fall apart; also used metaphorically: "Negociations broke down" |
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Synonyms: collapse, crumble, crumple, tumble |
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Related Words: change integrity |
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(verb) stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffe maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town" |
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Synonyms: break, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go |
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Related Words: blow, blow out, burn out, change, crash, go down, malfunction, misfire, misfunction |
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