Hyphenation of BREAKDOWN

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word BREAKDOWN? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

BREAK-DOWN

Definitions of BREAKDOWN:

1.	The act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue The social dislocations resulting from government policies His warning came after the breakdown of talks in London
2.	A mental or physical breakdown
3.	A cessation of normal operation There was a power breakdown
4.	An analysis into mutually exclusive categories

Synonyms of BREAKDOWN:

noun	dislocation, disruption, perturbation
noun	crack-up, collapse
noun	equipment failure, failure
noun	partitioning, analysis, analytic thinking

Last hyphenations of this language

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