Usually means: Separate into simpler constituent parts.
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  1. break down: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. break down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. break down: Collins English Dictionary
  4. break down: Vocabulary.com
  5. break-down: Wordnik
  6. break down: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. break down: Wiktionary
  8. break down: Dictionary.com
  9. Break Down (EP), Break Down (Landy artwork), Break Down (album), Break down: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. break down: Rhymezone
  11. break down: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. Break Down: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  13. break down: Phrasal Verb Page
  14. break down: Free Dictionary
  15. break down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Break Down: A to Z list of the most popular idioms
  17. break down: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. break down: Legal dictionary
  2. break down: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break down: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break down: Medical dictionary

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  1. break down: Idioms

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  1. break down, break down: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. break down: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Break down: Croquet

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Definitions from Wiktionary (break down)

verb:  (intransitive, of a machine, computer, vehicle, etc.) To stop functioning.
verb:  (intransitive) To unexpectedly collapse, physically or in structure.
verb:  (transitive) To intentionally demolish; to pull down.
verb:  (intransitive) To fail, especially socially or for political reasons.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To give in or give up: relent, concede, surrender.
verb:  (ergative, figuratively) To render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally.
verb:  (ergative, figuratively) To render or to become weak and ineffective.
verb:  (ergative) To (cause to) decay, to decompose.
verb:  To separate into a number of parts.
verb:  (ergative, figuratively) To divide into parts to give more details, to provide a more indepth analysis of.
verb:  (ergative) To digest.
noun:  Misspelling of breakdown. [(countable) A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.]

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