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vb. (en-third-person singularbreak down)
Usage examples of "breaks down".
Entropy is not obvious where few reactions are involved, as in the motion of the planets, or as when a lambda parlicle breaks down.
Lando and Chewbacca go on a cargo run in the Falcon, but are forced to divert to an Imperial-held world when the ship's navcomputer breaks down.
The Ateph Crown has two ram's horns, showing energy, dominion, the force that breaks down obstacles, the sign of the spring.
It's a hand machine and very old but Bozo gets it going again, but then an hour later it breaks down proper.
What mattered to me, though, was to focus on the point where coercion ultimately breaks down, and that is on the rock of truth.
It has the capacity to handle the amount of milk but I jury rigged it to handle the nannies and it just breaks down all the time.
Vanadium never wins the Nobel Prize for its work on behalf of refugee children and standing before the King of Sweden breaks down in tears at the thought of how many lives the prize money will save.
If it was built by the aerospace industry, it's outrageously high-powered but breaks down twice a day.
If the weather breaks down much more, and I understand it's doing just that, we can end up any place.