Definition of break

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Break (v. t.) To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods..

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Discompose :: Discompose (v. t.) To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up.
Short :: Short (superl.) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry..
Breakfast :: Breakfast (n.) A meal after fasting, or food in general..
Drag :: Drag (v. t.) To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag..
Dawn :: Dawn (v. i.) To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns..
Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.
Fractious :: Fractious (a.) Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse..
Parbreak :: Parbreak (v. i. & t.) To throw out; to vomit.
Breakneck :: Breakneck (n.) A steep place endangering the neck.
Spurt :: Sourt (n.) Fig.: A sudden outbreak; as, a spurt of jealousy..
Brittle :: Brittle (a.) Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.
Pistillation :: Pistillation (n.) The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation.
Shatter :: Shatter (v. t.) To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning..
Disruptive :: Disruptive (a.) Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery..
Discontinuer :: Discontinuer (n.) One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee..
Whitecap :: Whitecap (n.) A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening..
Apostrophe :: Apostrophe (n.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of Paradise Lost..
Incide :: Incide (v. t.) To cut; to separate and remove; to resolve or break up, as by medicines..
Breakfast :: Breakfast (n.) The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal..
Burst :: Burst (n.) A sudden breaking forth; a violent rending; an explosion; as, a burst of thunder; a burst of applause; a burst of passion; a burst of inspiration..
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