BREAKING DOWN

Food & Agriculture

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Crosswords: BREAKING DOWN

I seem to remember breaking down your door. (Se7en; writing credit: Andrew Kevin Walker)

I see the sun breaking DOWN INTO dark clouds and a vision of you standing (Butterfly; performing artist: Crazy Town)

See I was on the verge of breaking down (I Believe I Can Fly; performing artist: R. Kelly)

Stop Breaking Down (performing artist: Oliver Sain)

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Books

• Clear Communication: Breaking Down Barriers (reference)

• Breaking down the enmity : faith and politics in the Northern Ireland conflict (reference)

• Breaking Down the Digital Walls: Learning to Teach in a Post-Modem World (Suny Series, Education and Culture) (reference)

• Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Breaking Down the Constellations (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Breaking down last year's corn stalks with automobile-driven harrow. Harrison County, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Doctors and nurses can do their patients a great service by breaking down this emotional barrier. (references)

When severe, the muscle contractions can result in bone fracture or in kidney damage or failure as a consequence of muscle cells breaking down. Very high doses of PCP can cause convulsions, coma, hyperthermia, and death. (references)

Using advanced neuroimaging technology, scientists can see the dramatic effect of cigarette smoking on the brain and are finding a marked decrease in the levels of monoamineoxidase (MAO), an important enzyme that is responsible for breaking down dopamine. (references)

Children

Micronesia

The Government is committed to children's welfare through its programs of health care and education; however, these programs have been inadequate to meet the needs of the country's rapidly growing population, particularly in an environment in which the extended family is breaking down. (references)

Economic History

Taiwan

As the Taiwan market becomes more attractive to investors and consumers become more sophisticated, however, this simple system is breaking down. (references)

Indonesia

Military domination of regional administration is gradually breaking down, with new regulations prohibiting active-duty officers from holding political office. (references)

Women

Swaziland

Changing socioeconomic conditions, urbanization, and the increasing prominence of female leaders in government and civic organizations are breaking down barriers to equality. (references)

Micronesia

However, with increasing urbanization and monetarization of the economy, greater emphasis has been placed on the nuclear family, and the traditional methods of coping with family discord are breaking down. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Breaking down a fig-tree

Danish

nedbringning af alkoholprocenten (cutting, reduction in proof). (various references)

Dutch

reductie van wijngeest (cutting, reduction in proof). (various references)

Finnish

vedellä laimentaminen (cutting, reduction in proof), leikkaaminen (chipless cutting, cutting, cutting without stock removal, pruning, reduction in proof, shearing, trimming), juomaväkevyyteen laimentaminen (cutting, reduction in proof). (various references)

French

réduction des eaux-de-vie, enfoncement, défonçage, décomposition (break down). (various references)

German

schlappmachend. (various references)

Greek 

μείωση του αλκοολικού βαθμού αποστάγματος (cutting, reduction in proof). (various references)

Indonesian

penjebolan (breaking down or through of, incursion, inroads). (various references)

Italian

riduzione delle acquaviti (cutting, reduction in proof). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

崩壊 (caving in, collapse, crumbling, decay). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほうかい (caving in, cherishing, collapse, crumbling, decay, entertaining, harboring), �"しく� け (losing one's balance, weakening of one's attitude). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Portuguese

redução do grau alcoólico (cutting, reduction in proof), rebaixamento (abasement, debasement, degradation, depreciation). (various references)

Spanish

rebajado de aguardientes (cutting, reduction in proof). (various references)

Swedish

sänkning av alkoholhalten (cutting, reduction in proof). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: broadening.

-3 letters: breakdown, bringdown, darkening, debarking, downrange, knowinger, wandering, windbreak, wondering.

-4 letters: aborning, adorning, androgen, awninged, beadwork, bearding, beraking, bewaring, boarding, bowering, branding, breading, breaking, browning, debonair, deboning, donniker, dowering, drowning, endbrain, endowing, enrobing, kneading, ninebark, organdie, rawboned, rewaking, ringbone, wakening, wreaking.

-5 letters: aboding, abridge, adoring, aginner, andiron, aneroid, banding, bandore, banking, barding, barking.