Dictionary Entry
breakdown
breakdown is a 9-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 21 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.
- 2noun
A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.
- 3noun
Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
- 4noun
the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
"the social dislocations resulting from government policies"
"his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London"
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- 5noun
an analysis into mutually exclusive categories
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- 6noun
a cessation of normal operation
"there was a power breakdown"
- 7noun
a mental or physical breakdown
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