break down

Hardly had Orde's first crew passed, however, when Heinzman's men began to break down the logs into the drive.

Get ladders as quickly as possible, with crowbars, and break down the wall.

She did not want him to speak of Evie and break down the wall between them; yet she did want it.

She felt that she herself had got something near a death-wound, but she would not break down.

Was it possible for the whole system to break down through a shock to its confidence?

As was usual in all Teutonic drives, endeavors were made by propaganda work to break down the morale of the Italian troops.

Poluski's chaffing outburst failed in its intent, though, to his great relief, she did not break down as he feared.

Youve brought me another of em, too; then keep away from me, lest I break down.

No invention of which human intellect was capable could break down the barriers that nature had erected.

She did nothing by halves, and she knew that she should not break down.