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Breakdown Car Piece Machinery Stops Working Unreliable Trip

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If a car or a piece of machinery has a b________, it stops working.If a car or a piece of machinery has a breakdown, it stops working.
Her old car was unreliable, so the trip was plagued by breakdowns.
If you stop on the hard shoulder, wait for the police or breakdown service.
word breakdown
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noun
The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending .
...the breakdown of talks between the U.S. and E.U. officials.
...the irretrievable breakdown of a marriage.
He argues that the breakdown in the legal system has spawned a black market.
If you have a breakdown, you become very depressed, so that you are unable to cope with your life.
Obviously we were under a lot of stress. And I basically had a breakdown.
They often seem depressed and close to emotional breakdown.
If a car or a piece of machinery has a breakdown, it stops working.
Her old car was unreliable, so the trip was plagued by breakdowns.
If you stop on the hard shoulder, wait for the police or breakdown service.
A breakdown of something is a list of its separate parts.
The organisers were given a breakdown of the costs.
inflections breakdownscrackup
cefr-level C1

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