When I think of the word breakdown in communication, it is a sense of making the concept you are talking about simpler. You may need to use this tactic when talking to smaller children.
sentence: Hey Mrs. Brown, could you breakdown what you just said, I don't understand.
Waverly's mother threatens to throw out the chess set and the reprimands her for losing the pieces, in addition to the already missing pieces.
The truth was, that the little Puritans, being of the most intolerant brood that ever lived, had got a vague idea of something outlandish, unearthly, or at variance with ordinary fashions, in the mother and child, and therefore scorned them in their hearts, and not unfrequently reviled them with their tongues.
