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nervous breakdown

nervous breakdown noun: an attack of a psychological disorder such as anxiety or depression which is so severe that it prevents a person from continuing to function normally.

Noun

nervous breakdown (plural nervous breakdowns)

  1. An attack of a psychological disorder such as anxiety or depression which is so severe that it prevents a person from continuing to function normally.
    • There was organic disease, and there was what is vaguely called nervous breakdown; it was too clear that Mr. Newthorpe must count upon very moderate activity either of mind or body henceforth.1887, George Gissing, Thyrza
    • ...will you kindly think up at your earliest convenience some plan for politely ejecting this Mr Chalmers of yours from our humble home?--because if you don't, I'm going to have a nervous breakdown.1915, P. G. Wodehouse, Something New
  2. (Philippines) A psychological disorder usually characterized by panic attacks and aggressiveness, related to the Hispanic ataque de nervios.

nervous breakdown meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

nervous breakdown in Urdu

اعصابی کمزوری, خلل اعصاب

nervous breakdown in Malayalam

(mental) collapse, breakdown, crisis
മാനസികത്തകർച്ച, നാഡീസ്തംഭനം, ഉറക്കമില്ലായ്മ, ആത്മവിശ്വാസക്കുറവ്, നിരാശ, ഞരമ്പുരോഗം

nervous breakdown in Kannada

ನರಾಘಾತ, ನರಕ್ಕುಂಟಾದ ದೌರ್ಬಲ್ಯ

Synonyms of nervous breakdown

Forms of nervous breakdown

pluralnervous breakdowns

Questions about nervous breakdown

What does nervous breakdown mean?
Nervous breakdown means an attack of a psychological disorder such as anxiety or depression which is so severe that it prevents a person from continuing to function normally.
What is nervous breakdown in Urdu?
Nervous breakdown in Urdu is اعصابی کمزوری, خلل اعصاب. See Nervous breakdown meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is nervous breakdown?
Nervous breakdown is a noun.
What is the plural of nervous breakdown?
The plural of nervous breakdown is nervous breakdowns.

Words near nervous breakdown in the dictionary

  1. nervosity
  2. nervous
  3. nervous as a cat
  4. nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
  5. nervous as a whore in church
  6. nervous breakdown
  7. nervous breakdowns
  8. nervous hit
  9. nervous hits
  10. nervous nellie
  11. nervous nellies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nervous breakdown (page history and authors); nervous breakdown (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nervous breakdown (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); nervous breakdown (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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