1. To cause to fall or collapse.
2. To collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack; SYN. collapse.
3. To fail to operate correctly; to break.
4. To lose control of one's emotions; SYN. lose it.
5. To make ineffective; SYN. crush.
6. When something decomposes or reduces to its smallest parts or is reduced by someone to its smallest parts, it breaks down.
1. To be unable.
2. To be unsuccessful; SYN. go wrong, miscarry.
3. To become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close.
4. To disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; SYN. betray.
5. To fail to do something; leave something undone; SYN. neglect.
6. To fail to get a passing grade; SYN. flunk, bomb, flush it.
7. To fall short in what is expected.
8. To get worse.
9. To judge unacceptable.
10. To prove insufficient; SYN. run out, give out.
11. To stop operating or functioning; SYN. give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down.
1. To fall loosely.
2. To fall suddenly and abruptly.
1. A cessation of normal operation; SYN. equipment failure.
2. A mental or physical breakdown; SYN. crack-up.
3. An analysis into mutually exclusive categories; SYN. partitioning.
4. A breakdown is a situation in which something mechanical has broken down.
5. A situation in which an arrangement, agreement, negotiation, plan, or marriage has broken down is a breakdown.
ETYM From Fail.
1. An act that fails.
2. An event that does not accomplish its intended purpose.
3. An unexpected omission.
4. Lack of success.