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  1. averiarse, desajustarse, descomponerse, destruirse, estropearse, dejar de funcionar, inutilizarse, chingarse, cuatrapearse, desconchabarse, desconchinflarse, desvencijarse, fregarse, joderse, romperse, sonar; Synonyms: become damaged, break, go bad, bust, fall into disrepair, get broken, get busted; Stop operating or functioning.
  2. His car broke down, Su auto se descompuso.
    The engine finally went.
    The car died on the road.
    The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town.
    The coffee maker broke.
    The engine failed on the way to town.
    Her eyesight went after the accident.

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  3. terminar la relación; Synonyms: break up, drift apart, end one's relationship, end up one's relationship, terminate; Come to an end. ; Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways.
  4. doblegar, vencer; Synonyms: tame, bend, bow down, break, crush, overcome, overpower, subdue; Make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans. ; Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable.
  5. estudiar en sus partes, analizar; Synonyms: analyze, study, break up, dissect, resolve, anatomize, analyse; Make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features.
  6. Analyze a specimen.
    Analyze a sentence.
    Analyze a chemical compound.

  7. vencer contundentemente; Synonyms: crush, destroy, take apart; Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.
  8. abatir, tirar; Synonyms: cast down, knock down, knock out, batter down, beat down, break in, defeat, run to ground
  9. fracasar; Synonyms: break off, come off badly, fail, go by the board, run into failure, sink
  10. romper a llorar; Synonyms: break in tears, break into tears, break up, burst into tears, burst out crying, burst out weeping
  11. estropear; Synonyms: break, damage, ruin, batter, louse up, mess up, bang up; Cause to fall or collapse.
  12. hacer trizas emocionalmente; Synonyms: break apart, crumble, crush, destroy emotionally, shatter, tear apart
  13. sufrir una crisis nerviosa, quedar abatido, sufrir un colapso, sufrir un colapso nervioso, tener un colapso nervioso, caer presa de una crisis; Synonyms: break up, collapse, come apart, crack up, fall apart, snap, suffer a nervous breakdown; Lose control of one's emotions.
  14. When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely.
    When her baby died, she snapped.

  15. reducirse en componentes más simples; Synonyms: break down to simpler components, reduce to a simpler form
  16. reducir a componentes más simples; Synonyms: break down to simpler components, reduce to a simpler form; Separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts.
  17. desdoblar

 

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