What is "broke down"

Usage examples of "broke down".

The machine made in the USA broke down if he looked at it sideways.

Meanwhile, the young lady kept looking around at us as if we were saints, and telling us we'd done something amazing, and suddenly she broke down and cried.

And then when he got in trouble with Stalin, during the purges, he broke down and traded his soul for the vodka he needed.

The third wall broke down the location of wild card cases by building and business.

As soon as talks between the Race and the Germans broke down, he'd got his wife and children (and Heinrich's beffel) out of Lodz and into a hamlet called Widawa, southwest of the city.

As soon as talks between the Race and the Germans broke down, he’.

To cap it all, his ship's insulation apparently broke down on the way back, and now he's in the sick bay with a bad case of space-gripe.

That society broke down completely, however, when we were brought to the enclosure and it has never reconstituted itself.

The X3 broke down the picture into individual pixels, then using an artificial intelligence program, compared each to the pixels surrounding it, and either sharpened, or flattened, the image.

The coachman's arms were round the horse's neck in a moment, and he fairly broke down and cried.

But when their defenses finally broke down in the nineteenth century, China collapsed.

In four days Rufus Dawes, emaciated, blistered, blinded, broke down.

Tomorrow's papers will merely mention that the Bishop is in poor health, that he has been working too hard, and that he broke down last night.

They slaughtered the people without mercy, broke down the temples and palaces.