Usually means: Overwhelming mental stress causing dysfunction.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word nervous breakdown:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. nervous breakdown: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nervous breakdown: Merriam-Webster
  3. nervous breakdown: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nervous breakdown: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nervous breakdown: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nervous breakdown: Vocabulary.com
  7. nervous breakdown: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. nervous breakdown: Wiktionary
  9. nervous breakdown: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. nervous breakdown: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. nervous breakdown: Dictionary.com
  12. Nervous Breakdown (EP), Nervous Breakdown (Fu-Schnickens album), Nervous Breakdown, Nervous breakdown (disambiguation), Nervous breakdown, The Nervous Breakdown (magazine): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. nervous breakdown: Rhymezone
  14. nervous breakdown: FreeDictionary.org
  15. nervous breakdown: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. nervous breakdown: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nervous breakdown: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nervous Breakdown (album), nervous breakdown: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. nervous breakdown: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Nervous Breakdown (album), nervous breakdown: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nervous Breakdown: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nervous breakdown)

noun:  An attack of a psychological disorder such as depression or anxiety so severe that it prevents a person from continuing to function normally
noun:  (Philippines) A psychological disorder usually characterized by panic attacks and aggressiveness, related to the Hispanic ataque de nervios.

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