behave vs break down

behave

verb
  • To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way. 

  • To act in a polite or proper way. 

  • To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner. 

break down

verb
  • To demolish, to pull down. (intentionally) 

  • To divide into parts to give more details, to provide a more indepth analysis of. 

  • To (cause to) decay, to decompose. 

  • To cease to function. (others) 

  • To stop functioning. (machine, computer, vehicle) 

  • To fail, especially socially or for political reasons. 

  • To give in, relent, concede, or surrender. 

  • To render or to become weak and ineffective. 

  • To digest. 

  • To render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally. 

  • To collapse, physically or in structure. (unexpectedly) 

How often have the words behave and break down occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )