break down
(CRY) — phrasal verb with break /breɪk/ verb (broke, broken)Definition
› to be unable to control your feelings and to start to cry: When we gave her the bad news, she broke down and cried.Weeping and crying
(Definition of break down (CRY) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- bawl verb (CRY)
- blubber verb
- boohoo exclamation
- burst out laughing/crying idiom
- crocodile tears noun
- crumple verb
- cry-baby noun
- grizzle verb
- lachrymose adjective
- mist (sth) over/up phrasal verb
- misty-eyed adjective
- not a dry eye in the house idiom
- not know whether to laugh or cry idiom
- snivel verb
- teardrop noun
- weep buckets idiom
- weep verb (CRY)
- weepy adjective
- weepy noun
- wept verb
Topic:
Weeping and crying
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