Definition of Breakdown

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Breakdown

The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.

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.

Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.

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Breakdown Quotations

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
Roald Dahl

I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.
Kathy Griffin

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
Jacques Derrida

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.
Hu Shih

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.
Art Buchwald

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
R. D. Laing

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
Kate Beckinsale

We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
Jerry Falwell

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
Christopher Lasch

Breakdown Translations

breakdown in Italian is perdita, panna
breakdown in Swedish is haveri

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