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" |
Recent comments
3 days 8 hours ago
3 weeks 3 days ago
5 weeks 2 days ago
12 weeks 4 days ago
15 weeks 2 days ago
16 weeks 4 days ago
16 weeks 5 days ago
16 weeks 6 days ago
22 weeks 1 day ago
22 weeks 1 day ago