| brittle | | |
| n. (food) | 1. brittle, toffee, toffy | caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets. |
| ~ candy, confect | a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts. |
| ~ peanut brittle | brittle containing peanuts. |
| adj. | 2. brickle, brickly, brittle | having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped.; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal" |
| ~ breakable | capable of being broken or damaged.; "earthenware pottery is breakable"; "breakable articles should be packed carefully" |
| adj. | 3. brittle | lacking warmth and generosity of spirit.; "a brittle and calculating woman" |
| ~ coldhearted | lacking in sympathy or feeling. |
| adj. | 4. brittle, unannealed | (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured. |
| ~ unhardened, untempered | not brought to a proper consistency or hardness.; "untempered mortar"; "untempered steel" |
| break off | | |
| v. (change) | 1. break off, break short, cut short | interrupt before its natural or planned end.; "We had to cut short our vacation" |
| ~ hang up | interrupt a telephone conversation. |
| ~ break, interrupt | terminate.; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty" |
| v. (change) | 2. break, break off, discontinue, stop | prevent completion.; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations" |
| ~ fracture | become fractured.; "The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe" |
| ~ terminate, end | bring to an end or halt.; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" |
| ~ bog down, bog | get stuck while doing something.; "She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation" |
| ~ cut off, disrupt, interrupt, break up | make a break in.; "We interrupt the program for the following messages" |
| v. (contact) | 3. break away, break off, chip, chip off, come off | break off (a piece from a whole).; "Her tooth chipped" |
| ~ flake off, peel, flake, peel off | come off in flakes or thin small pieces.; "The paint in my house is peeling off" |
| ~ exfoliate | come off in a very thin piece. |
| ~ divide, part, separate | come apart.; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" |
| v. (contact) | 4. break, break off, snap off | break a piece from a whole.; "break a branch from a tree" |
| ~ detach | cause to become detached or separated; take off.; "detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it" |
| v. (contact) | 5. break off, chip, cut off, knap | break a small piece off from.; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth" |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
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