A cessation of normal operation

Usage examples of breakdown.

But the complications and demands of both the law and politics became too much and Adams suffered what appears to have been a physical breakdown.

And only years later, in a letter to his daughter Polly, warning her against a life of seclusion, would Jefferson acknowledge that in fact he had suffered a breakdown very like what Adams had foreseen.

I think I have finally designed an adequate combustion chamber for catalyzed controlled breakdown.

Pastor Crenshaw showed signs of mild delirium or mental breakdown, even physical exhaustion.

The Doos cannot take more than two people, but the margin allows for the breakdown of two machines.

However, my specialties include meal preparation, catalytic fuel conversion, enzymatic composition breakdown, chemical diagnostic programming, and bacterial composting acceleration.

We both silently contemplated the enzymatic breakdown of carbon dioxide to carbonic acid.

He had been fixated on what a neat weapon a breakdown zone would make if you could only throw it at your enemy.

Robert Braehme, a New York actor who, in the best theatrical tradition, attempted halfheartedly to kill several of the others, suffered a nervous breakdown, and had to be returned to the States under restraint.

A restriction on the shipments to the Middle East and India from the United Kingdom and from the United States to not more than forty ships a month, if enforced from January to June 1943, inclusive, would improve the imports by 33,000,000 tons, thus avoiding the threatened breakdown and not making us live from hand to mouth, absolutely dependent on the fulfillment of American promises, in the last six months of the year.

Just as glucagon mobilizes the glycogen reservoir in the liver, bringing about its breakdown to glucose, which pours into the blood, so the parathyroid hormone mobilizes the calcium stores in bone, bringing about its breakdown to calcium ions in solution, which pours into the blood.

The jaygee sounded as though he was teetering on the edge of a breakdown.

He had driven Frank Lemmer to the edge of a nervous breakdown and was now starting on Rodney Ironsides.

Father Lesches had been turned down repeatedly in his requests for a parish of his own, and it was thought that he must have suffered a mental breakdown and focused the blame for his rejections upon Bishop Heffron.

But aside from the vast cost and the point - assuming a portal would be heading in the other direction before too long - that it would be a waste of time and effort which would bring reconnection no quicker, there was one clinching argument that would apply until either no signal arrived from Zenerre or word came of an utter breakdown in civil society: in the Mercatoria only Engineers were allowed to make and emplace wormholes.