1. to fail to maintain adequate physiological or psychological function; to break down in health or mental state
Usage: medical/psychological term; third-person singular present tense of 'decompensate'

Examples

• The patient's condition decompensates rapidly without proper medication.
• When stress levels become too high, some people decompensates mentally.
• His liver function decompensates as the disease progresses.
• The system decompensates under extreme pressure.
• Without treatment, her cardiac function decompensates over time.