Breakdown and Search

Breakdown

Breakdown noun - A mental or nervous collapse.

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Search and breakdown are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Search" instead a noun "Breakdown".

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

Search noun - An act or process of looking carefully or thoroughly for someone or something.

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Breakdown and search are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Breakdown" instead a noun "Search".

full	full breakdown	full search
long	long breakdown	long search
detailed	detailed breakdown	detailed search
brief	brief breakdown	brief search
Other adjectives: short, complete, initial, proper, simple, actual, massive, big, huge, main, final, later, subsequent.

Rocky is either a grey flying squirrel, a gangster, a breakdown crane who works at the Sodor Search and Rescue Center, or the Muppet-like janitor of Elmore Junior High.

Source: Names The Same / Western Animation
Jennifer Wilbanks, who had a complete nervous breakdown and ran out on her future husband before the wedding and then went missing, which caused the whole state to initiate a massive search for her that wound up costing in the tens of thousands of dollars.

Source: Runaway Bride
Subverted in Jorge Luis Borges' short story "Averroes's Search": when Borges has a Creator Breakdown, he doesn't believe any more in the characters of this story, forcing a No Ending.

Source: Author Existence Failure

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Search and Breakdown. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 31, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/breakdown/search

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Search or Breakdown. 2016. Accessed July 31, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/breakdown/search.

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