NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A severe or incapacitating emotional disorder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("nervous breakdown" is a kind of...):

breakdown; crack-up (a mental or physical breakdown)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nervous breakdown"):

nervous exhaustion; nervous prostration (an emotional disorder that leaves you exhausted and unable to work)

neurasthenia (nervous breakdown (not in technical use))

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