Breakdown and Decline

Breakdown

Breakdown noun - A mental or nervous collapse.

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Decline and breakdown are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Decline" instead the word "Breakdown" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: break, breaking, breakup, breakout, breakage

Decline noun - A loss of status.

Usage example: the engagement at the small club was an unmistakable sign of the rock band's decline

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Breakdown and decline are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Breakdown" instead the word "Decline" as a noun or a verb.

steady	steady breakdown	steady decline
physical	physical breakdown	physical decline
long	long breakdown	long decline
similar	similar breakdown	similar decline
Other adjectives: brief, small, real, severe, massive, serious, huge, slow, slight, bad, social, gradual, moral, major, societal, possible, final, apparent, inevitable, subsequent, eventual, rapid, sudden, resulting.

Villainous Breakdown: Eric shows his first signs of his decline when he faces the possibility of being arrested after word gets to him that the One Percenters were tracked by cops.

Source: Film / 21 Jump Street
But his career seemed to hit a major decline in 1979 with the critical failure of Prophecy (the box office, however, was decent, if somewhat of a disappointment for the studio), which coincided with a mild Creator Breakdown (Frankenheimer's alcoholism hit its peak while that film was in production).

Source: Creator Killer / Film Individual Creators

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