Synonyms for Breaking down:

• adj.

  •decaying (adjective)
  • rusting,
  • eroding,
  • Crumbling,
  • Collapsing,
  • spoiling,
  • Disintegrating,
  • deteriorating,
  • Oxidizing,
  • decomposing.

• n.

  •division (noun)
  • distribution,
  • reduction,
  • subdivision,
  • breaking,
  • splitting up,
  • dissolution,
  • distinguishing,
  • detachment,
  • disjuncture,
  • dividing,
  • autopsy,
  • selection,
  • Disuniting,
  • apportionment,
  • divorce,
  • partition,
  • Disseverance,
  • rending,
  • cutting up,
  • contrasting,
  • diagnosis,
  • breaking up,
  • analysis,
  • Detaching,
  • disunion,
  • rupture,
  • carving,
  • parting,
  • demarcation.
  •severance (noun)
  • divorcement,
  • Disseverment,
  • split,
  • disjunction.

• v.

  •act up (malfunction) (verb)
  • function go on the blink,
  • not work,
  • stop running,
  • stall,
  • improperly,
  • jam,
  • conk out.
  •anatomize (verb)
  • lay bare,
  • think through,
  • evaluate.
  •choke up (verb)
  • become speechless,
  • cry.
  •crack (verb)
  • collapse,
  • go crazy,
  • succumb,
  • bug out,
  • go bonkers,
  • blow one's mind,
  • give way,
  • become insane,
  • yield,
  • flip,
  • blow up,
  • become deranged,
  • lose it.
  •crumple (verb)
  • crimp,
  • rumple,
  • wad,
  • fold,
  • Crimple,
  • shrivel,
  • fall,
  • ruck,
  • crease,
  • crinkle,
  • screw,
  • wrinkle,
  • buckle,
  • Rimple,
  • scrunch,
  • cave in,
  • pucker,
  • crush.
  •cry (verb)
  • blubber,
  • squall,
  • mewl,
  • deplore,
  • burst into tears,
  • lament,
  • keen,
  • howl,
  • whine,
  • Boohoo,
  • bawl,
  • mourn,
  • bemoan,
  • fret,
  • let go,
  • shed tears,
  • ring the blues,
  • snivel,
  • put on the weeps,
  • yammer,
  • caterwaul,
  • weep,
  • let it all out,
  • wail,
  • grieve,
  • yowl,
  • turn on waterworks,
  • crack up,
  • regret,
  • groan,
  • dissolve in tears,
  • blub,
  • moan,
  • whimper,
  • sniff,
  • sorrow,
  • sigh,
  • complain,
  • shed bitter tears,
  • sob,
  • choke up,
  • bewail.
  •decompose (verb)
  • distill,
  • anatomize,
  • turn,
  • taint,
  • fester,
  • putrefy,
  • separate,
  • break up,
  • crumble,
  • dissolve,
  • atomize,
  • spoil,
  • Putresce,
  • decompound,
  • dissect,
  • molder,
  • decay.
  •die (verb)
  • halt,
  • bate,
  • ease off,
  • fade away,
  • ebb,
  • go downhill,
  • peter out,
  • rot,
  • wear away,
  • melt away,
  • fade out,
  • go bad,
  • pass,
  • weaken,
  • fail,
  • dilapidate,
  • run low,
  • moderate,
  • run down,
  • diminish,
  • vanish,
  • wilt,
  • slacken,
  • run out,
  • fizzle out,
  • expire,
  • degenerate,
  • deteriorate,
  • decline,
  • sink,
  • lose power,
  • lapse,
  • subside,
  • fade,
  • let up,
  • disappear,
  • retrograde,
  • droop,
  • wane,
  • abate,
  • stop,
  • recede,
  • rankle.
  •dismantle (verb)
  • dismount,
  • strip,
  • destroy,
  • divest,
  • undo,
  • pull down,
  • take to pieces,
  • fell,
  • take down,
  • denudate,
  • wrack,
  • bare,
  • subvert,
  • bankrupt,
  • knock down,
  • part out,
  • strike,
  • disassemble,
  • denude,
  • demolish,
  • decimate,
  • Unrig,
  • disrobe,
  • dismember,
  • deprive.
  •dissect (verb)
  • study,
  • inquire about,
  • scrutinize,
  • investigate,
  • explore,
  • inspect,
  • examine.
  •dissolve (verb)
  • evanesce,
  • dwindle,
  • break into pieces,
  • waste away,
  • evaporate,
  • perish,
  • dissipate,
  • unmake,
  • diffuse.
  •divide (verb)
  • dissociate,
  • halve,
  • cross,
  • subdivide,
  • intersect,
  • dissever,
  • part,
  • quarter,
  • branch,
  • unbind,
  • shear,
  • rend,
  • sunder,
  • section,
  • cut up,
  • segment,
  • tear,
  • chop,
  • disengage,
  • Abscind,
  • demarcate,
  • carve,
  • cleave,
  • disjoin,
  • pull away,
  • dichotomize,
  • loose,
  • bisect,
  • cut,
  • isolate.
  •fail (verb)
  • slip,
  • flounder,
  • go wrong,
  • miscarry,
  • meet with disaster,
  • go astray,
  • blunder,
  • be defeated,
  • be in vain,
  • go down swinging,
  • be ruined,
  • lose out,
  • founder,
  • fizzle,
  • come to naught,
  • come to nothing,
  • be found lacking,
  • be demoted,
  • fall through,
  • lose status,
  • miss,
  • go up in smoke,
  • fall flat,
  • miss the boat,
  • flop,
  • run aground,
  • fall short,
  • hit the skids,
  • hit bottom,
  • back wrong horse,
  • turn out badly,
  • backslide,
  • lose control,
  • go down,
  • play into.
  •fall (verb)
  • take a header,
  • fold up,
  • dip,
  • depreciate,
  • drop down,
  • keel over,
  • lessen,
  • drag,
  • pitch,
  • spin,
  • hit the dirt,
  • gravitate,
  • crash,
  • cascade,
  • plunge,
  • be precipitated,
  • flag,
  • topple,
  • tip over,
  • plummet,
  • trail,
  • trip,
  • slump,
  • tumble,
  • slope,
  • stumble,
  • nose-dive,
  • regress,
  • totter,
  • dive,
  • decrease,
  • ease,
  • relapse,
  • land.
  •founder (verb)
  • stagger,
  • sprawl,
  • go to bottom,
  • go lame,
  • submerge,
  • submerse,
  • misfire,
  • be lost,
  • lurch.
  •fragmentize (verb)
  • split up,
  • fragment.
  •freak out (verb)
  • fly off the handle,
  • lose control of oneself,
  • lose one's cool,
  • lose one's temper,
  • flip out,
  • hit the ceiling,
  • go nuts,
  • go berserk,
  • freak out,
  • go off the deep end,
  • lose one's mind,
  • go ballistic,
  • blow one's top,
  • go bananas,
  • wig out,
  • flip one's lid,
  • go ape,
  • go haywire,
  • come unglued,
  • work oneself up,
  • blow one's stack,
  • blow a gasket,
  • lose one's composure.
  •inculcate (verb)
  • indoctrinate,
  • brainwash,
  • communicate,
  • drum into,
  • inseminate,
  • instill,
  • hammer into,
  • drill,
  • impress,
  • impart,
  • shape up,
  • work over,
  • plant,
  • educate,
  • program,
  • instruct.
  •miscarry (verb)
  • miss the mark,
  • miss fire.
  •misfire (verb)
  • explode,
  • fizz out,
  • poop out,
  • backfire.
  •perish (verb)
  • go,
  • depart,
  • croak,
  • cease,
  • corrupt,
  • go under,
  • lose life,
  • check out,
  • demise,
  • decease,
  • bite the dust,
  • be killed,
  • buy the farm,
  • pass away,
  • od,
  • give up the ghost,
  • be destroyed,
  • pass on,
  • kick the bucket.
  •putrefy (verb)
  • stink.
  •rot (verb)
  • deprave,
  • demoralize,
  • go to pot,
  • warp,
  • languish,
  • pervert,
  • debauch,
  • stain,
  • debase.
  •sob (verb)
  • cry convulsively,
  • cry eyes out,
  • cry a river.
  •spell out (verb)
  • clue in,
  • fill someone in,
  • draw a map,
  • brief.
  •spoil (verb)
  • go off,
  • curdle,
  • addle,
  • become tainted,
  • become useless,
  • mildew.
  •succumb (verb)
  • knuckle,
  • throw in the towel,
  • pack it in,
  • knuckle under,
  • meet waterloo,
  • capitulate,
  • give out,
  • cave,
  • quit,
  • bow,
  • fall victim to,
  • give in,
  • eat crow,
  • give in to,
  • submit,
  • flake out,
  • defer,
  • show white flag,
  • take the count,
  • drop.
  •turn (verb)
  • ferment,
  • acidify,
  • sour,
  • become rancid,
  • dull.
  •weep (verb)
  • ululate,
  • let it out,
  • drip.
  •wilt (verb)
  • melt,
  • faint,
  • dry up,
  • wizen,
  • become limp,
  • mummify.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • crumbly.
  •disintegrate
  • disunite,
  • wash out,
  • wither,
  • wash away,
  • descend,
  • sever,
  • come apart,
  • disorganize,
  • pulverize,
  • worsen,
  • Deliquesce,
  • disperse,
  • detach,
  • disconnect,
  • disband,
  • take apart,
  • break apart,
  • Disimprove,
  • splinter,
  • turn to dust,
  • decompose.
  •resolve
  • lick,
  • purpose,
  • rule,
  • pass upon,
  • fix,
  • determine,
  • unzip,
  • work,
  • work through,
  • agree,
  • figure,
  • clinch,
  • remain firm,
  • conclude,
  • design,
  • choose,
  • make a point of,
  • elect,
  • pan out,
  • decide,
  • fathom,
  • propose,
  • undertake,
  • intend,
  • work out,
  • take a stand,
  • deal with,
  • will,
  • answer,
  • decree,
  • iron out.
  •simplify
  • abridge.
  •Other relevant words:
  • havoc,
  • ruination,
  • devastation,
  • mayhem,
  • tearing down,
  • resolution,
  • knocking down,
  • razing,
  • separation,
  • breakup,
  • undoing,
  • annihilation,
  • ruining,
  • anatomy,
  • wiping out,
  • rack and ruin,
  • ruin,
  • disintegration,
  • demolition,
  • breakdown,
  • assay,
  • wrecking,
  • laying waste,
  • dissection,
  • destruction.

Antonyms for Breaking down:

• n.

  • division
    juncture, unison, combination, unification, unity, accord, whole, attachment, union, system, agreement, connection.
  • severance
    closure, marriage, closing.

• v.

  • act up (malfunction)
    function properly.
  • clarify
    muddle, confuse, muddy, obscure, question, mix up, dirty, complicate.
  • classify
    estimate, collect, maintain, keep, exclude, guess, hold, unite, disallow, disorganize, combine, join, scatter, disintegrate, disorder, gather, disarrange.
  • crack
    mend, compose, misunderstand, be calm, fix.
  • crumple
    rise, straighten, smooth, flatten.
  • cry
    please, delight, praise, be happy, gloat.
  • decipher
    encode, conceal, code, scramble, suppress, hide.
  • decompose
    grow, put together, improve, develop.
  • destroy
    give birth, aid, save, retain, help, preserve, repair, validate, bear, create, assist, restore, start, build, construct, lose, begin.
  • die
    be born, forge, live, enlarge, strengthen, increase, enhance, flourish, arrive, commence, win, prolong, advance, reach, forward, appear, extend, continue.
  • disintegrate
    couple, attach, link, meld, connect.
  • dismantle
    clothe, raise, cover, assemble.
  • disorganize
    explain, plan, systematize, organize, clear up, neaten, soothe, clarify, order, calm, clean up, tidy, arrange, enlighten.
  • dissect
    sew, ignore.
  • dissolve
    solidify, unmix, resolve, marry, concentrate, integrate, coagulate.
  • divide
    close, associate, wait, stay, convince, fasten, append, persuade, agree.
  • explain
    perplex, withhold, distort, wonder, misrepresent, cloud, stagnate, tangle, mystify, be vague.
  • fail
    do well, accomplish, procure, obtain, earn, gain, go up, succeed, ascend, deliver, achieve, merit, prosper, complete, correct, finish, capture.
  • fall
    expand, climb, overcome, overthrow, progress, scale, compliment, attain.
  • inculcate
    neglect, learn.
  • indoctrinate
    leave alone, forget.
  • perish
    revive.
  • raze
    place.
  • resolve
    oppose, mull, hesitate, unsettle, waver, refuse.
  • rot
    moralize, clean, purify, upgrade, cleanse.
  • simplify
    make difficult.
  • spoil
    be indifferent.
  • succumb
    defend, fight, deny, conquer.
  • taint
    clear, benefit, esteem, honor, respect, right, bless, beautify.
  • turn
    make well.
  • wilt
    bloom.