break is the dictionary form of broke Definition of break
break has definitions from the fields of sport,tennis,geology,medicine,linguistics,boxing,dance,military,law,criminal law |
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[ verb ] terminate
Synonyms Examples "She interrupted her pregnancy" "break a lucky streak" "break the cycle of poverty" |
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[ verb ] become separated into pieces or fragments
Synonyms Examples "The figurine broke" "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" |
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[ verb ] render inoperable or ineffective
Examples "You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!" |
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[ verb ] destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
Examples "He broke the glass plate" "She broke the match" |
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[ verb ] act in disregard of laws and rules
Synonyms Examples "offend all laws of humanity" "violate the basic laws or human civilization" "break a law" |
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[ verb ] scatter or part
Examples "The clouds broke after the heavy downpour" |
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[ verb ] prevent completion
Synonyms Examples "stop the project" "break the silence" |
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[ verb ] move away or escape suddenly
Synonyms Examples "The horses broke from the stable" "Three inmates broke jail" "Nobody can break out--this prison is high security" |
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[ verb ] make submissive, obedient, or useful, as of wild animals or new items
Synonyms Examples : "The horse was tough to break" used metaphorically for people |
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[ noun ] some abrupt occurrence that interrupts
Synonyms Examples "the telephone is an annoying interruption" "there was a break in the action when a player was hurt" |
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[ verb ] (criminal law) enter someone's property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
Synonyms Examples "Someone broke in while I was on vacation" "They broke into my car and stole my radio!" |
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[ verb ] make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
Examples "The auction house would not disclose the price" "She won't reveal her age" "bring out the truth" "he broke the news to her" |
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[ verb ] surpass in excellence
Synonyms Examples "She bettered her own record" "break a record" |
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[ noun ] an unexpected piece of good luck
Synonyms Examples "he finally got his big break" |
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[ verb ] come into being
Examples "light broke over the horizon" "Voices broke in the air" |
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[ verb ] stop operating or functioning
Examples "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" |
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[ verb ] fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
Synonyms Examples "He violated the agreement to stay away from his ex-wife" "You are breaking the law!" |
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[ verb ] be broken in
Examples "If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress" |
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[ noun ] (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
Synonyms Examples "they built it right over a geological fault" |
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[ verb ] curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
Examples "The surf broke" |
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[ verb ] interrupt a continued activity
Synonyms Examples "She had broken with the traditional patterns" |
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[ noun ] a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
Synonyms Examples "they hoped to avoid a break in relations" |
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[ verb ] (military) make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing (military usage)
Examples "The ranks broke" |
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[ verb ] destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
Examples "He broke the glass plate" "She broke the match" |
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[ verb ] change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
Examples "Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children" |
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[ verb ] cause the failure or ruin of
Examples "His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage" "This play will either make or break the playwright" |
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[ verb ] find the solution or key to
Examples "break the code" |
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[ verb ] diminish or discontinue abruptly
Examples "The patient's fever broke last night" |
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[ verb ] happen or take place
Examples "Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months" (informal) |
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[ verb ] (linguistics) undergo breaking
Examples "The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages" |
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[ verb ] find a flaw in
Examples "break an alibi" "break down a proof" |
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[ verb ] interrupt the flow of current in
Examples "break a circuit" |
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[ verb ] fall sharply
Examples "stock prices broke" |
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[ verb ] weaken or destroy in spirit or body
Examples "His resistance was broken" "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death" |
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[ verb ] pierce or penetrate
Examples "The blade broke her skin" |
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[ verb ] be released or become known; of news
Synonyms Examples "News of her death broke in the morning" |
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[ verb ] become punctured or penetrated
Examples : "The skin broke" |
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[ verb ] pierce the surface of
Examples "The fish broke the water" |
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[ verb ] of the male voice in puberty
Examples "his voice is breaking--he should no longer sing in the choir" |
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[ verb ] go to pieces
Synonyms Examples "The lawn mower finally broke" "The gears wore out" "The old chair finally fell apart completely" |
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[ noun ] the occurrence of breaking
Examples "the break in the dam threatened the valley" |
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[ noun ] an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
Synonyms Examples "it was presented without commercial breaks" |
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[ noun ] (sport) any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
Synonyms Examples "the break in the eighth frame cost him the match" |
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[ verb ] destroy the completeness of a set of related items
Synonyms Examples "The book dealer would not break the set" |
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[ verb ] (sport) make the opening shot that scatters the balls, in billiards or pool
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[ verb ] (boxing) separate from a clinch, in boxing
Examples "The referee broke the boxers" |
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[ verb ] exchange for smaller units of money
Examples "I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy" |
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[ verb ] (dance) do a break dance
Synonyms Examples "Kids were break-dancing at the street corner" |
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[ verb ] happen, as of an event
Synonyms Examples "Report the news as it develops" "These political movements recrudesce from time to time" |
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[ noun ] (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
Synonyms Examples "he was up two breaks in the second set" |
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[ verb ] emerge from the surface, as of fish in water
Examples "The whales broke" |
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[ verb ] divide into pieces, as by bending or cutting
Synonyms Examples "break the loaf of bread" "break the crackers" |
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[ noun ] (medicine) breaking of hard tissue such as bone
Synonyms Examples "it was a nasty fracture" "the break seems to have been caused by a fall" |
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[ verb ] (law) invalidate by judicial action
Examples "The will was broken" |
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[ verb ] change directions suddenly
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[ verb ] assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
Synonyms Examples "She was demoted because she always speaks up" "He was broken down to Sargeant" |
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[ noun ] a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
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[ noun ] (sport) the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
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[ verb ] come forth or begin from a state of latency
Examples "The first winter storm broke over New York" |
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[ noun ] (sport) a sudden dash
Examples "he made a break for the open door" |
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[ verb ] give up
Examples : "break cigarette smoking" |
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[ verb ] cause to give up a habit
Examples "She finally broke herself of smoking cigarettes" |
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[ verb ] vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
Examples "The flat plain was broken by sharply mesas" |
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[ verb ] come to an end
Examples "The heat wave finally broke yesterday" |
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[ noun ] an escape from jail
Synonyms Examples "the breakout was carefully planned" |
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