nervous_breakdown (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *nervous breakdown*:
NOUN	state	nervous breakdown	a severe or incapacitating emotional disorder

English > *nervous breakdown*: 1 sense > noun 1, state
Meaning	A severe or incapacitating emotional disorder.
Narrower	nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration	An emotional disorder that leaves you exhausted and unable to work
Narrower	neurasthenia	nervous breakdown (not in technical use)
Broader	breakdown, crack-up	A mental or physical breakdown
Spanish	ataque de nervios, colapso nervioso, crisis nerviosa, depresión nerviosa
Catalan	crisi nerviosa

HyperDic: nervous_breakdown