Breakdown
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Related pairs
How words are described
| emotional | emotional breakdown | emotional collapse |
| physical | physical breakdown | physical collapse |
| full | full breakdown | full collapse |
| complete | complete breakdown | complete collapse |
| Other adjectives: utter, total, nervous, massive, slow, social, gradual, spectacular, major, near, final, catastrophic, apparent, temporary, epic, inevitable, subsequent, impending, eventual, literal, rapid, sudden, resulting, ensuing. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- Post Peak Oil: Restricting modern society from one of the most, if not the most important substance can lead to a complete breakdown and collapse of it.
Source: This Index Means Trouble - Unfortunately, despite a great deal of critical success, Pet Sounds was the Boys' lowest-selling album (at least initially), contributing to Wilson's Creator Breakdown and the collapse of his follow-up project, Smile.
Source: Cerebus Syndrome / Music -
Mota's great cities are equally idyllic, but the rest of the world is beginning to collapse into anarchy due to the breakdown of the Biosystems Lab and Climatrol, and space travel is forbidden.
Source: Video Game / Phantasy Star II
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Collapse and Breakdown. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/breakdown/collapse
Breakdown & Collapse. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/breakdown/collapse>.
Collapse or Breakdown. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/breakdown/collapse.
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