Breakdown and Fault

Breakdown

Breakdown noun - A mental or nervous collapse.

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Fault and breakdown are semantically related in interruption topic. In some cases you can use "Fault" instead a noun "Breakdown", when it comes to topics like failure, breakage.

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

Fault

Fault noun - Electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc..

Usage example: it took much longer to find the fault than to fix it

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Breakdown and fault are semantically related in interruption topic. Sometimes you can use "Breakdown" instead a noun "Fault", if it concerns topics such as failure, breakage.

Nearby Words: faulty, faultless, faulted, faulting, faultily

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How words are described

good	good breakdown	good fault
full	full breakdown	full fault
long	long breakdown	long fault
similar	similar breakdown	similar fault
Other adjectives: complete, small, actual, real, big, collective, serious, little, slight, bad, terrible, main, social, major, minor, basic.

Both words in one sentence

When his father shows up, Dick has something of a breakdown and admits he thinks it's their fault.

Source: It's All My Fault
Never My Fault: After another failure, Uka attempts to smoke Cortex with an energy ball as punishment, which misses and hits the circuitry of the space station, causing a breakdown.

Source: Video Game / Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
What's worse is that Frank's breakdown and death, which were supposed caused by Homer, was really his own fault.

Source: Broken Aesop / Western Animation

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