Example : Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination.

Synonyms : crush

Example : Analyze a specimen.
Analyze a sentence.
Analyze a chemical compound.

Synonyms : analyse, analyze, dissect, take apart

Example : When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely.
When her baby died, she snapped.

Synonyms : lose it, snap

Example : 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.

Synonyms : break, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad

Example : The building crumbled after the explosion.
Negotiations broke down.

Synonyms : collapse, crumble, crumple, tumble

Synonyms : break up, decompose

Synonyms : collapse