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change vs break down

break down vs change

change is a noun but break down is not a noun.

change and break down both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
change Yes No Yes No
break down No No Yes No
As verbs, break down is a hyponym of change; that is, break down is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than change:
  • change: undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
  • break down: stop operating or functioning
Other hyponyms of change include freshen, freshen up, refresh, refreshen, dress, get dressed, acquire, develop, get, grow, produce, regenerate, shade, gel, animalise, animalize, brutalise, brutalize, convert, creolize, mutate, experience, have, decrepitate, suburbanise, suburbanize, roll, roll up, glass, glass over, glaze, glaze over, grow, turn, barbarise, barbarize, alkalinise, alkalinize, change by reversal, reverse, turn, change integrity, change form, change shape, deform, form, change state, turn, climb up, jump, rise, assimilate, dissimilate, dissimilate, change magnitude, modify, deaden, break, crumble, decay, dilapidate, mildew, mold, mould, hydrate, dry, dry out, strengthen, distil, distill, deoxidise, deoxidize, reduce, crack, oxidate, oxidise, oxidize, grow, mellow, mellow out, melt, soften, ionise, ionize, stabilise, stabilize, destabilise, destabilize, lighten, lighten up, color, colour, discolor, discolour, discolor, contract, narrow, darken, dim, boil, break, check, crack, transpire, resume, take up, change surface, sublimate, sublime, cool, cool down, cool off, warm up, warm, warm up, metamorphose, transform, transmute, convert, dull, get used to, complexify, ramify, Americanise, Americanize, develop, modernise, modernize, stiffen, tighten, break, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad, give way, yield, harden, indurate, harden, indurate, suffuse, hush, normalise, normalize, reorient, purify, digest, regress, foul, decalcify, industrialise, industrialize, decarboxylate, spot, find, get, incur, obtain, receive, acetylate, acetylise, acetylize, acquire, adopt, assume, take, take on, prim, capacitate, caseate, caseate, clinker, cure, dawn, salinate, desalinate, desalinise, desalinize, desalt, shallow, shoal, steepen, superannuate, ulcerate, vitrify, vulcanise, vulcanize, dull, pall, become flat, die, pall, saponify, go, move, run, come, catch, catch on, develop, grow, fly, acquire, develop, evolve, assibilate, smoothen, turn on, drop, break into, change, deepen, concretise, concretize, decay, commute, transpose, introject, shift, swing, fall, fall, reflate, hydrolyse, hydrolyze, fold, fold up, gelatinise, gelatinize, felt, felt up, mat, mat up, matt-up, matte, matte up, recombine, feminise, feminize, obsolesce, plasticise, plasticize, recede, defervesce, incandesce, calcify, drift, play out, conjugate, isomerise, isomerize, evaporate, vaporise, indurate, gradate, keratinise, keratinize, opacify, mature, rejuvenate, sequester, transaminate, vesiculate, undulate, vascularise, vascularize, crash, professionalise, professionalize, shift, flip, flip out, gum, repress, shear, damage, synthesize, come around, come round, promote, divide, part, separate, arrange, format, fall for, ascend, move up, rise, change posture, settle, break, cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give, give way, undergo, solarise, solarize, occult, pass, depart, leave, pull up stakes, liberalise, liberalize, stratify, democratise, democratize, loosen, relax, reticulate, flocculate, carbonate, come in, go out, stagnate, make, frost over, ice over, ice up.
As verbs, break down is a hyponym of change; that is, break down is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than change:
  • change: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
  • break down: make ineffective
Other hyponyms of change include arouse, awaken, rouse, wake, wake up, waken, cause to sleep, affect, freshen, refresh, refreshen, fecundate, fertilise, fertilize, inseminate, indispose, cry, etiolate, shade, animalise, animalize, brutalise, brutalize, convert, opalise, opalize, arterialise, arterialize, get, make, counterchange, interchange, transpose, vascularise, vascularize, decrepitate, suburbanise, suburbanize, overturn, revolutionise, revolutionize, etiolate, barbarise, barbarize, alkalinise, alkalinize, mythicise, mythicize, mythologise, mythologize, allegorise, allegorize, demythologise, demythologize, bring, land, coarsen, affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on, alchemise, alchemize, alcoholise, alcoholize, form, shape, round, round down, round off, round out, suspend, sober, reconstruct, increase, ease off, ease up, let up, assimilate, dissimilate, commute, convert, exchange, vitalise, vitalize, clear, unclutter, activate, activate, activate, aerate, activate, deactivate, inactivate, blunt, deaden, reconstruct, redo, remodel, edit, redact, cut, edit, edit out, chasten, subdue, tame, chasten, temper, ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate, worsen, wet, dry, dry out, lubricate, beef up, fortify, strengthen, fortify, lace, spike, weaken, blunt, oxidate, oxidise, oxidize, merge, unify, unite, age, mature, ripen, antiquate, antique, antiquate, develop, make grow, soften, damage, ossify, acerbate, stabilise, stabilize, destabilise, destabilize, sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitise, sensitize, desensitise, desensitize, accustom, habituate, disarray, disorder, discolor, color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize, stain, hue, uglify, untune, adjust, correct, set, set, disqualify, indispose, unfit, domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, reclaim, tame, widen, dehydrogenate, hydrogenate, oxygenise, oxygenize, darken, brighten, lighten, lighten up, blear, blur, bedim, obscure, overcloud, blot out, hide, obliterate, obscure, veil, cook, slenderise, slenderize, crack, dismiss, dissolve, end, terminate, defog, demist, concentrate, condense, contract, chill, cool, cool down, heat, heat up, warm, boil, freeze, blister, change over, shift, switch, transpose, change over, convert, transform, transform, transform, transmute, transform, transmute, transubstantiate, ash, transform, translate, reclaim, rectify, reform, regenerate, convert, Islamise, Islamize, invert, reverse, turn back, invert, customise, customize, individualise, individualize, personalise, personalize, depersonalise, depersonalize, objectify, sharpen, drop, flatten, disintegrate, magnetise, magnetize, degauss, demagnetise, demagnetize, simplify, complicate, elaborate, rarify, refine, refine, complicate, perplex, pressurise, pressurize, supercharge, centralise, centralize, concentrate, decentralise, decentralize, deconcentrate, socialise, socialize, fix, gear up, prepare, ready, set, set up, internationalise, internationalize, bolshevise, bolshevize, communise, communize, Europeanise, Europeanize, Europeanise, Europeanize, bestialise, bestialize, Americanise, Americanize, Frenchify, civilise, civilize, nationalise, nationalize, denationalise, denationalize, naturalise, naturalize, denaturalise, denaturalize, naturalise, naturalize, denaturalise, denaturalize, even, even out, equal, equalise, equalize, equate, match, stiffen, loose, loosen, fasten, tighten, transitivise, transitivize, detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivise, intransitivize, inspissate, thicken, full, diversify, decelerate, slow down, deaden, accelerate, speed, speed up, check, delay, retard, decrease, lessen, minify, liquefy, liquidise, liquidize, liquify, solvate, dissolve, validate, invalidate, vitiate, void, empty, fill, fill up, make full, saturate, clot, coagulate, louden, normalise, normalize, renormalise, renormalize, morph, neutralise, neutralize, commercialise, commercialize, market, purge, purify, sanctify, mechanise, mechanize, automate, automatise, automatize, automatise, automatize, mechanise, mechanize, chord, harmonise, harmonize, polarise, polarize, glorify, contaminate, devalue, insulate, calcify, urbanise, urbanize, urbanise, urbanize, emulsify, demulsify, decarboxylate, nazify, fecundate, fertilise, fertilize, clarify, embrittle, mark, nick, disable, disenable, incapacitate, enable, de-emphasise, de-emphasize, destress, tender, tenderise, tenderize, charge, bubble, sweeten, iodinate, ionate, archaise, archaize, inform, officialise, officialize, occidentalise, occidentalize, westernise, westernize, orientalise, orientalize, acetylate, acetylise, acetylize, achromatise, achromatize, collimate, parallel, camp, classicise, classicize, conventionalise, conventionalize, decimalise, decimalize, dizzy, envenom, poison, exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, externalize, objectify, glamorise, glamorize, glamourise, glamourize, introvert, laicise, laicize, politicise, politicize, radicalize, proof, romanticise, romanticize, rusticate, sauce, shallow, shoal, tense, steepen, scramble, unscramble, unsex, vitrify, pall, saponify, expand, extend, set aside, suspend, muddy, transform, elevate, lift, raise, harshen, dinge, demonise, demonize, devilise, devilize, diabolise, diabolize, etherealize, etherialise, immaterialise, immaterialize, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize, animate, animise, animize, clear, dynamise, dynamize, dynamise, dynamize, rarefy, sublimate, subtilize, volatilise, volatilize, uniformise, uniformize, symmetrise, symmetrize, eternalise, eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize, denature, denature, denature, sanitise, sanitize, verbify, shift, sputter, draw, make, dope, prostrate, excite, energise, energize, excite, shake, outmode, spice, spice up, shorten, think, make, deflate, inflate, digitalise, digitalize, digitise, digitize, gelatinise, gelatinize, recombine, effeminise, effeminize, feminise, feminize, womanize, masculinise, masculinize, virilise, virilize, masculinize, disharmonize, dissonate, sexualise, sexualize, schematise, schematize, patent, constitutionalise, constitutionalize, rationalise, rationalize, plasticise, plasticize, rarefy, paganise, paganize, incandesce, deaminate, deaminize, angulate, circularize, sensitise, sensitize, sensitise, sensitize, depolarise, depolarize, intensify, isomerise, isomerize, legitimate, evaporate, vaporise, industrialise, industrialize, opacify, opsonize, militarise, militarize, nationalise, nationalize, recommend, sentimentalise, sentimentalize, solemnise, solemnize, territorialise, territorialize, transaminate, glorify, spiritualize, transfigure, unsanctify, vesiculate, visualise, visualize, variegate, ventilate, vivify, vulgarise, vulgarize, supple, professionalise, professionalize, smut, still, weaponize, eroticize, sex up, piggyback, port, lifehack, cloud, blur, confuse, obnubilate, obscure, moderate, tame, tone down, obfuscate, synchronise, synchronize, mince, moderate, soften, militarise, militarize, crush, fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out, disturb, touch, dull, blunt, dull, sharpen, coarsen, loosen, loosen, undo, untie, barb, string, straighten, straighten out, bring, amalgamate, commix, mingle, mix, unify, charge, put, clean, make clean, begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil, depress, lower, deform, break, break up, alter, adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament, humanise, humanize, humble, alienate, disaffect, estrange, right, desensitise, desensitize, deodorise, deodorize, deodourise, develop, blur, blind, change intensity, change taste, exchange, interchange, replace, substitute, capture, add, bestow, bring, contribute, impart, lend, reestablish, reinstate, restore, liberalise, liberalize, compensate, correct, redress, right, democratise, democratize, neutralize, corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate, loosen, relax, unify, unite, flocculate, turn, cohere, commit.
change (noun) break down (noun)
the action of changing something
a different or fresh set of clothes
a thing that is different
a difference that is usually pleasant
an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
the result of alteration or modification
coins of small denomination regarded collectively
the balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due
money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency
a relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event
change (verb) break down (verb)
undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
cause to change; make different; cause a transformation stop operating or functioning
become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
change clothes; put on different clothes make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category make ineffective
lay aside, abandon, or leave for another cause to fall or collapse
remove or replace the coverings of lose control of one's emotions
become deeper in tone fall apart
change from one vehicle or transportation line to another
give to, and receive from, one another
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