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break down: collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack; make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"; cause to fall or collapse; lose control of one's emotions; "When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely"; "When her baby died, she snapped"

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hear a different drummer collapse

break through collapse: penetrate; "The sun broke through the clouds"; "The rescue team broke through the wall in the mine shaft"; pass through (a barrier); "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county"

break loose collapse

fly the coop collapse

happy hour collapse: the time of day when a bar sells alcoholic drinks at a reduced price

break off collapse

take five collapse: take a break for five minutes; "The musicians took five during the rehearsal"

bust in collapse

leak out collapse

debouch collapse: pass out or emerge; especially of rivers; "The tributary debouched into the big river"; march out (as from a defile) into open ground; "The regiments debouched from the valley"

break away collapse

interrupt collapse: a signal that temporarily stops the execution of a program so that another procedure can be carried out; terminate; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty"; destroy the peace or tranquility of; "Don't interrupt me when I'm reading"; interfere in someone else's activity; "Please don't interrupt me while I'm on the phone"; make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages"

breather collapse

downtime collapse: a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is not operating (especially as a result of malfunctions)

disrupt collapse: throw into disorder; "This event disrupted the orderly process"

discontinue collapse: put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"; come or be at an end; "the support from our sponsoring agency will discontinue after March 31"

tear loose collapse

surcease collapse

come forth collapse: happen or occur as a result of something

burst in collapse

lunch collapse: a midday meal; take the midday meal; "At what time are you lunching?"; provide a midday meal for; "She lunched us well"

intermit collapse

get away collapse

cave in collapse: the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it

dissect collapse: cut open or cut apart; "dissect the bodies for analysis"

acclimate collapse

issue forth collapse: come forth; "A scream came from the woman's mouth"; "His breath came hard"

time out collapse

bail out collapse: remove (water) from a boat by dipping and throwing over the side; free on bail

habituate collapse: make psychologically or physically used (to something); "She became habituated to the background music"

inure collapse: cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold"

part company collapse

disembarrass collapse

housebreak collapse: train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house

disobey collapse: refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient; "He disobeyed his supervisor and was fired"

let in on collapse

putrefy collapse: become putrid; decay with an offensive smell; "organic matter putrefies"

fall out collapse: have a breach in relations; "We fell out over a trivial question"; leave (a barracks) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation; "the soldiers fell out"

break the news collapse

infringe collapse

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