Breakdown

Noun

 * 1) A failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed
 * 2) A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability
 * 3) Listing, division or categorization in great detail
 * 4)  Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements.
 * 5) A musical technique, by where the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, and can vary in heaviness depending on the genre

Adjectives for Breakdown
nervous; moral; universal; disastrous; incipient; mental; practical

Synonyms

 * (musical technique) degradation

Derived terms

 * breakdown point
 * nervous breakdown

Thesaurus
downfall, draining, encroachment, exhaustedness, exhaustion, failure, fall, foundering, fractionation, gravimetric analysis, harm, hobbling, hurt, hurting, impairment, incapacitation, infringement, injury, inroad, itemization, loss, maiming, mayhem, mischief, mutilation, nervous breakdown, nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, neurasthenia, nose dive, overthrow, overturn, palace revolution, pratfall, prostration, proximate analysis, quantitative analysis, radical change, reduction to elements, resolution, review, revolt, revolution, revolutionary war, revulsion, ruin, ruination, ruinousness, run-down, sabotage, scathe, segmentation, semimicroanalysis, separation, shipwreck, sickening, smash, smashup, spasm, spoiling, striking alteration, stumble, subdivision, subversion, sweeping change, tabula rasa, tailspin, technological revolution, total change, total loss, transilience, tumble, upset, violent change, washout, weakening, wrack, wreck, analysis, analyzation, anatomizing, anatomy, assay, assaying, bankruptcy, bloodless revolution, bouleversement, breakage, breaking down, breaking up, breakup, cataclysm, catastrophe, cave, cave-in, circulatory collapse, classification, clean slate, clean sweep, collapse, comedown, computer revolution, convulsion, counterrevolution, crack-up, crackup, crash, crippling, cropper, damage, debacle, decomposition, deflation, destruction, detailing, detriment, diaeresis, dilapidation, disablement, disaster, disrepair, dissection, distillation, division, docimasy,

Etymology
break + down