Definition of nervous breakdown
: an attack of mental or emotional disorder especially when of sufficient severity to require hospitalization
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Examples of nervous breakdown in a Sentence
She had a nervous breakdown shortly after her sister's death.
He is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
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After the exile, Philip's mother had a nervous breakdown and his father moved to France, leaving Philip in Great Britain to live with various relatives.
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Meanwhile, Randall is just one day away from the birth of his first child—a month after his first nervous breakdown.
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Directions Bleak but powerful, this Bulgarian ensemble drama presents the capital city of Sofia as a society suffering a collective nervous breakdown.
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Here is a society on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
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Jamie harbors his own guilt for having left Iraq in the wake of a nervous breakdown before the bombing.
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Blaue Reiter painters Franz Marc and August Macke died in the war; Kirchner suffered a nervous breakdown and was released from service in 1915 after two months at the front.
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Gohil succumbed to a nervous breakdown in 2002 due to the stress of keeping up with a fake image.
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Ellen is terrible at cleaning and obviously super close to a nervous breakdown.
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First Known Use of nervous breakdown
1870
nervous breakdown Synonyms
Near Antonyms
aplomb, calmness, composure, coolness, imperturbability, placidity, self-possession, sereneness, serenity, tranquillity (or tranquility), tranquilness;
Related Words
alarm (also alarum), anxiety, apprehension, disquiet;
NERVOUS BREAKDOWN Defined for English Language Learners
nervous breakdown
Definition of nervous breakdown for English Language Learners
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: a sudden failure of mental health that makes someone unable to live normally
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nervous breakdown
medical Definition of nervous breakdown
: an attack of mental or emotional disorder especially when of sufficient severity to require hospitalization
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