Breakdown
Breakdown noun - A mental or nervous collapse.
Extinction and breakdown are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Extinction" instead a noun "Breakdown".
Extinction
Extinction noun - The state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless.
Breakdown and extinction are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Breakdown" instead a noun "Extinction".
Nearby Word: extinct
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- defeat and breakdown
- defeat and extinction
- decline and breakdown
- decline and extinction
- end and breakdown
- end and extinction
- destruction and breakdown
- destruction and extinction
- ruin and breakdown
- ruin and extinction
- dissolution and breakdown
- dissolution and extinction
- decay and breakdown
- decay and extinction
How words are described
| similar | similar breakdown | similar extinction |
| complete | complete breakdown | complete extinction |
| utter | utter breakdown | utter extinction |
| due | due breakdown | due extinction |
| Other adjectives: actual, massive, bad, gradual, major, near, societal, possible, final, apparent, borderline, inevitable, subsequent, impending, eventual, sudden. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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When circumstances force her to decide between arresting the Well-Intentioned Extremist perpetrator and saving the human race from extinction, she suffers a near-fatal nervous breakdown.
Source: Always Gets His Man -
Here's the breakdown... Jumi Arc: The Jumi are alive and can cry healing tears again, but Alexandra is going to be exiled from the Jeweled City for a damned long time if not permanently, and there's nothing to say that the Jumi won't be hunted to extinction a second time.
Source: Video Game / Legend of Mana -
Phlebotinum Breakdown: The Earth Current is capable of repelling The Powers of the Night, but its exact date of failure is prophesied, which will ultimately leads to the extinction of mankind.
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