breaking down

Little by little, the barriers between the mainstream and adult worlds are breaking down.

But the scientific priests do a good job breaking down the facts of the matter.

The picture quality was lousy, and the set was always breaking down.

Even weightlifting demands the constant breaking down of muscle fibers.

“They were just meat,” he gasped before breaking down in tears.

My poor kind friend is breaking down under the effects of the dreadful sentence.

Daphne's "simplicity," the pose of her girlhood, was in fact breaking down in all directions.

Thyrsis discovered now what his wife had meant when she wrote that suffering and humiliation were breaking down her character.

Its sentiment was for sustaining an officer who had been true to his oath, amid a general breaking down of loyalty.

It means equal or greater labour, as well, and a sad breaking down of all womanliness.