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breakdown (n.)
"a collapse," 1832, from
break
(v.) +
down
(adv.). The verbal phrase is attested from late 14c. The noun, specifically of machinery, is from 1838; meaning "an analysis in detail" is from 1936.
Nervous breakdown
is from 1905.
