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breaking downverbpresent participle of break down to arrange or assign according to typewhen presented with the pile of files, the first thing he did was to break them down by month, order within the month, and region assorting, categorizing, classifying, classing, codifying, compartmentalizing, compartmenting, digesting, distinguishing, distributing, grading, grouping, pegging, placing, ranging, ranking, relegating, separating, sorting, typing arraying, disposing, drawing up, marshaling(or marshalling), ordering, organizing, systematizingalphabetizing, cataloging(or cataloguing), filing, indexing, listing, referringpigeonholing, shelvingidentifying, recognizingculling, screening, setting, sieving, sifting, winnowingclumping, clustering, colligatingrecategorizing, reclassifying, regroupingsubcategorizing confusing, disarranging, jumbling, lumping, mixing (up), scramblingmisclassifying, missorting(or mis-sorting), mistyping to go through decompositionthe enamel of a human tooth will begin to break down when exposed to sugar for too long corrupting, decaying, decomposing, disintegrating, festering, fouling, moldering, molding, perishing(chiefly British), putrefying, rotting, spoiling souring, turning, turning off(British)contaminating, defiling, polluting, taintingaddling, curdling, fermentingmortifyingrustingcrumbling, declining, degenerating, descending, deteriorating, dilapidating, sinking, withering falling apart, going to seed(or running to seed) aging(or ageing), developing, growing, maturing, ripeningrefreshing, renewing, restoringcleansing, purifyingassembling, composing, integratingameliorating, bettering, improving, meliorating to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationshipsif we break the problem down into what appear to be three aspects of it, we'll have a better chance of solving it analyzing, anatomizing, assaying, cutting, deconstructing, dissecting assessing, diagnosing, evaluating, examining, inspecting, investigating, scrutinizingarranging, assorting, cataloging(or cataloguing), categorizing, classifying, codifying, diagramming(or diagraming), enumerating, indexing, ordering, schematizing, sorting, tabulatingdividing, reducing, segmenting, separating, subdividing agglomerating, aggregating, amalgamating, assimilating, coalescing, conglomerating, consolidating, integrating, synthesizing, unifying to stop functioningthe computer finally broke down and had to be replaced breaking, conking (out), crashing, cutting out, dying, failing, giving out, stalling fizzling, sputtering, wheezingacting up, malfunctioningjamming starting (up) to yield to mental or emotional stressbegan to break down when he realized that he was on the verge of bankruptcy breaking up, cracking, flipping (out)(slang), freaking (out), melting down, wigging (out)(slang) choking blowing one's cool, falling apart, going off the deep end, going to pieces, losing it to take apartthe crew was breaking down the party tent when we arrived demounting, disassembling, dismantling, dismembering, dismounting, knocking down, striking, taking down detaching, disengagingbreaking up, disaggregating, disarticulating, disconnecting, disjoining, disjointing, dissevering, disuniting, dividing, separating assembling, constructing building, erecting, pitchingcombining, uniting to cause to break with violence and much noisefirefighters had to break down the wall to rescue the kitten crashing, shattering, smashing busting, fracturing, fragmentingannihilating, bashing, decimating, demolishing, desolating, destroying, devastating, nuking, pulverizing, ruining, tearing down, totaling(or totalling), vaporizing, wasting, wracking, wreckingshivering, splintering, splittingcracking, crunching, crushing, snapping |