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| break, interruption | (n.) | some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity.; "the telephone is an annoying interruption"; "there was a break in the action when a player was hurt" |
| break, good luck, happy chance | (n.) | an unexpected piece of good luck.; "he finally got his big break" |
| break, fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift | (n.) | (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other.; "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust" |
| breach, break, falling out, rift, rupture, severance | (n.) | a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions).; "they hoped to avoid a break in relations" |
| break, recess, respite, time out | (n.) | a pause from doing something (as work).; "we took a 10-minute break"; "he took time out to recuperate" |
| break, breakage, breaking | (n.) | the act of breaking something.; "the breakage was unavoidable" |
| break, intermission, interruption, pause, suspension | (n.) | a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something. |
| break, fracture | (n.) | breaking of hard tissue such as bone.; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall" |
| break | (n.) | the occurrence of breaking.; "the break in the dam threatened the valley" |
| break | (n.) | an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion).; "then there was a break in her voice" |
| break | (n.) | the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool. |
| break, break of serve | (n.) | (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving.; "he was up two breaks in the second set" |
| break, disruption, gap, interruption | (n.) | an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity.; "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account" |
| break | (n.) | a sudden dash.; "he made a break for the open door" |
| break, open frame | (n.) | any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare.; "the break in the eighth frame cost him the match" |
| break, breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak | (n.) | an escape from jail.; "the breakout was carefully planned" |
| break, interrupt | (v.) | terminate.; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty" |
| break, come apart, fall apart, separate, split up | (v.) | become separated into pieces or fragments.; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" |
| break | (v.) | render inoperable or ineffective.; "You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!" |
| break, bust | (v.) | ruin completely.; "He busted my radio!" |
| break | (v.) | destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments.; "He broke the glass plate"; "She broke the match" |
| breach, break, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate | (v.) | act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises.; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise" |
| break, break away, break out | (v.) | move away or escape suddenly.; "The horses broke from the stable"; "Three inmates broke jail"; "Nobody can break out--this prison is high security" |
| break | (v.) | scatter or part.; "The clouds broke after the heavy downpour" |
| break, burst, erupt | (v.) | force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up.; "break into tears"; "erupt in anger" |
| break, break off, discontinue, stop | (v.) | prevent completion.; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations" |
| break, break in | (v.) | enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act.; "Someone broke in while I was on vacation"; "They broke into my car and stole my radio!"; "who broke into my account last night?" |
| break, break in | (v.) | make submissive, obedient, or useful.; "The horse was tough to break"; "I broke in the new intern" |
| break, go against, violate | (v.) | fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns.; "This sentence violates the rules of syntax" |
| better, break | (v.) | surpass in excellence.; "She bettered her own record"; "break a record" |
| break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, unwrap | (v.) | make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret.; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case" |
| break | (v.) | come into being.; "light broke over the horizon"; "Voices broke in the air" |
| break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad | (v.) | stop operating or functioning.; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident" |
| break, break away | (v.) | interrupt a continued activity.; "She had broken with the traditional patterns" |
| break | (v.) | make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing.; "The ranks broke" |
| break | (v.) | curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves.; "The surf broke" |
| break, damp, dampen, soften, weaken | (v.) | lessen in force or effect.; "soften a shock"; "break a fall" |
| break | (v.) | be broken in.; "If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress" |
| break | (v.) | come to an end.; "The heat wave finally broke yesterday" |
| break | (v.) | vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity.; "The flat plain was broken by tall mesas" |
| break | (v.) | cause to give up a habit.; "She finally broke herself of smoking cigarettes" |
| break | (v.) | give up.; "break cigarette smoking" |
| break | (v.) | come forth or begin from a state of latency.; "The first winter storm broke over New York" |
| break | (v.) | happen or take place.; "Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months" |
| break | (v.) | cause the failure or ruin of.; "His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage"; "This play will either make or break the playwright" |
| break | (v.) | invalidate by judicial action.; "The will was broken" |
| break, break up, part, separate, split, split up | (v.) | discontinue an association or relation; go different ways.; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up" |
| break, bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate | (v.) | assign to a lower position; reduce in rank.; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant" |
| bankrupt, break, ruin, smash | (v.) | reduce to bankruptcy.; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him" |
| break | (v.) | change directions suddenly. |
| break | (v.) | emerge from the surface of a body of water.; "The whales broke" |
| break, cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give, give way | (v.) | break down, literally or metaphorically.; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice" |
| break, break dance, break-dance | (v.) | do a break dance.; "Kids were break-dancing at the street corner" |
| break | (v.) | exchange for smaller units of money.; "I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy" |
| break, break up | (v.) | destroy the completeness of a set of related items.; "The book dealer would not break the set" |
| break | (v.) | make the opening shot that scatters the balls. |
| break | (v.) | separate from a clinch, in boxing.; "The referee broke the boxers" |
| break, bust, fall apart, wear, wear out | (v.) | go to pieces.; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely" |
| break, break off, snap off | (v.) | break a piece from a whole.; "break a branch from a tree" |
| break | (v.) | become punctured or penetrated.; "The skin broke" |
| break | (v.) | pierce or penetrate.; "The blade broke her skin" |
| break, get around, get out | (v.) | be released or become known; of news.; "News of her death broke in the morning" |
| break, intermit, pause | (v.) | cease an action temporarily.; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch" |
| break | (v.) | interrupt the flow of current in.; "break a circuit" |
| break | (v.) | undergo breaking.; "The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages" |
| break | (v.) | find a flaw in.; "break an alibi"; "break down a proof" |
| break | (v.) | find the solution or key to.; "break the code" |
| break | (v.) | change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another.; "Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children" |
| break, develop, recrudesce | (v.) | happen.; "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time" |
| break, check, crack | (v.) | become fractured; break or crack on the surface only.; "The glass cracked when it was heated" |
| break | (v.) | crack; of the male voice in puberty.; "his voice is breaking--he should no longer sing in the choir" |
| break | (v.) | fall sharply.; "stock prices broke" |
| break, fracture | (v.) | fracture a bone of.; "I broke my foot while playing hockey" |
| break | (v.) | diminish or discontinue abruptly.; "The patient's fever broke last night" |
| break | (v.) | weaken or destroy in spirit or body.; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death" |
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