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broken-downadjective in a bad or weak condition because of being old, not well cared for, etc.A broken-down car was blocking one of the lanes of the road. His body was now broken-down after many years of hard living. decrepit, dilapidated, run-downasthenic, debilitated, delicate, down-and-out, effete, enervated, enfeebled, faint, feeble, frail, infirm, languid, low, prostrate, prostrated, sapped, slight, soft, softened, tender, unsubstantial, wasted, weak, weakened, wimpish, wimpychallenged, disabled, incapacitated, invalidparalyzedimpotent, powerlessbroken, damaged, destroyed, harmed, hurt, impaired, injured, lame, unsound, wrecked brand-new, fresh, newcared-for, kept-up, maintainedhard, hardy, lusty, red-blooded, robust, sturdy, toughhale, healthy, soundmighty, powerful, rugged, stalwart, stout, strong 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 assorted, categorized, classed, classified, codified, compartmentalized, compartmented, digested, distinguished, distributed, graded, grouped, pegged, placed, ranged, ranked, relegated, separated, sorted, typed arrayed, disposed, drawn up, marshaled(or marshalled), ordered, organized, systematizedalphabetized, cataloged(or catalogued), filed, indexed, listed, referredpigeonholed, shelvedidentified, recognizedculled, screened, set, sieved, sifted, winnowedclumped, clustered, colligatedrecategorized, reclassified, regroupedsubcategorized confused, disarranged, jumbled, lumped, mixed (up), scrambledmisclassified, missorted(or mis-sorted), mistyped to go through decompositionthe enamel of a human tooth will begin to break down when exposed to sugar for too long corrupted, decayed, decomposed, disintegrated, festered, fouled, molded, moldered, perished(chiefly British), putrefied, rotted, spoiled(or chiefly British spoilt) soured, turned, turned off(British)contaminated, defiled, polluted, taintedaddled, curdled, fermentedmortifiedrustedcrumbled, declined, degenerated, descended, deteriorated, dilapidated, sunk, withered fallen apart, gone to seed(or run to seed) aged, developed, grown, matured, ripenedrefreshed, renewed, restoredcleansed, purifiedassembled, composed, integratedameliorated, bettered, improved, meliorated 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 analyzed, anatomized, assayed, cut, deconstructed, dissected assessed, diagnosed, evaluated, examined, inspected, investigated, scrutinizedarranged, assorted, cataloged(or catalogued), categorized, classified, codified, diagrammed(or diagramed), enumerated, indexed, ordered, schematized, sorted, tabulateddivided, reduced, segmented, separated, subdivided agglomerated, aggregated, amalgamated, assimilated, coalesced, conglomerated, consolidated, integrated, synthesized, unified to stop functioningthe computer finally broke down and had to be replaced broken, conked (out), crashed, cut out, died, failed, given out, stalled fizzled, sputtered, wheezedacted up, malfunctionedjammed started (up) to yield to mental or emotional stressbegan to break down when he realized that he was on the verge of bankruptcy broken up, cracked, flipped (out)(slang), freaked (out), melted down, wigged (out)(slang) choked blown one's cool, fallen apart, gone off the deep end, gone to pieces, lost it to take apartthe crew was breaking down the party tent when we arrived demounted, disassembled, dismantled, dismembered, dismounted, knocked down, struck(also stricken), taken down detached, disengagedbroken up, disaggregated, disarticulated, disconnected, disjoined, disjointed, dissevered, disunited, divided, separated assembled, constructed built, erected, pitchedcombined, united to cause to break with violence and much noisefirefighters had to break down the wall to rescue the kitten crashed, shattered, smashed busted(also bust), fractured, fragmentedannihilated, bashed, decimated, demolished, desolated, destroyed, devastated, nuked, pulverized, ruined, torn down, totaled(or totalled), vaporized, wasted, wracked, wreckedshivered, splintered, splitcracked, crunched, crushed, snapped in 1727 |