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to dysfunction
noun
A failure to function in an expected or complete manner. Usually refers to a disorder in a bodily organ (e.g. erectile dysfunction), a mental disorder, or the improper behavior of a social group.
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But that first shooting was an introduction to dysfunction.
Poverty is depressing, and depression, leading as it does to dysfunction and isolation, is impoverishing.
To take elevatoring lightly is to risk dooming a building to dysfunction and its inhabitants to a kind of incremental purgatory.
Alluding to dysfunction in policymaking is a more insidious rebuke than recusal from a single policy.
Late Monday night, Stoudemire affirmed the Knicks' return to dysfunction, without saying a word.
But sport can never be impermeable to dysfunction and dissonance in broader society.
When it comes to dysfunction, the Talley clan is no slouch.
"Tonight we put an end to dysfunction," Mr. Peralta told a crowd at a restaurant in East Elmhurst.
Voice change may occur due to dysfunction of the cricothyroid muscles.
The brainstem involves nuclei closely related to dysfunction of the descending modulatory system [71].
However, elevated ROS and/or diminished antioxidant capacity leading to oxidative stress can lead to dysfunction.
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