breakdown

be ill; ail, suffer, labor under, be affected with, complain of, have; droop, flag, languish, halt; sicken, peak, pine; gasp., keep one's bed; feign sickness (falsehood)., lay by, lay up; take a disease, catch a disease, catch an infection; break out.

fail; be unsuccessful; not succeed; make vain efforts; do in vain, labor in vain, toil in vain; flunk [U.S.]; lose one's labor, take nothing by one's motion; bring to naught, make nothing of; get blood from a stone (impossible); roll the stones of Sisyphus (useless); do by halves (not complete); lose ground (recede); fall short of., miss, miss one's aim, miss the mark, miss one's footing, miss stays; slip, trip, stumble; make a slip, blunder [more], make a mess of, make a botch of; botch it, bitch it, miscarry, abort, go up like a rocket and come down like the stick, reckon without one's host; get the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong sow by the ear (blunder, mismanage) [more]., limp, halt, hobble, titubate; fall, tumble; lose one's balance; fall to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud, run aground, split upon a rock; run one's head against a stone wall, knock one's head against a stone wall, dash one's head against a stone wall; break one's back; break down, sink, drown, founder, have the ground cut from under one; get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a scrape; come to grief (adversity); go to the wall, go to the dogs, go to pot; lick the dust, bite the dust; be defeated; have the worst of it, lose the day, come off second best, lose; fall a prey to; succumb (submit); not have a leg to stand on., come to nothing, end in smoke; flat out [U.S.]; fall to the ground, fall through, fall dead, fall stillborn, fall flat; slip through one's fingers; hang fire, miss fire; flash in the pan, collapse; topple down (descent); go to wrack and ruin (destruction)., go amiss, go wrong, go cross, go hard with, go on a wrong tack; go on ill, come off ill, turn out ill, work ill; take a wrong term, take an ugly term., be all over with, be all up with; explode; dash one's hopes (disappoint) [more]; defeat the purpose; sow the wind and reap the whirlwind, jump out of the frying pan into the fire.

have determination; know one's own mind; be resolved; make up one's mind, will, resolve, determine; decide (judgement); form a determination, come to a determination, come to a resolution, come to a resolve; conclude, fix, seal, determine once for all, bring to a crisis, drive matters to an extremity; take a decisive step (choice); take upon oneself (undertake)., devote oneself to, give oneself up to; throw away the scabbard, kick down the ladder, nail one's colors to the mast, set one's back against the wall, set one's teeth, put one's foot down, take one's stand; stand firm (stability); steel oneself; stand no nonsense, not listen to the voice of the charmer., buckle to; buckle oneself put one's shoulder to the wheel, lay one's shoulder to the wheel, set one's shoulder to the wheel; put one's heart into; run the gauntlet, make a dash at, take the bull by the horns; rush in medias res, plunge in medias res; go in for; insist upon, make a point of; set one's heart upon, set one's mind upon., stick at nothing, stop at nothing; make short work of (activity); not stick at trifles; go all lengths, go the limit, go the whole hog; persist (persevere); go through fire and water, ride the tiger, ride in the whirlwind and direct the storm.