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NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
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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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