Definition of break

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Break (v. t.) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares..

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Reveille :: Reveille (n.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging..
Decamp :: Decamp (v. i.) To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly..
Discuss :: Discuss (v. t.) To break up; to disperse; to scatter; to dissipate; to drive away; -- said especially of tumors.
Crumble :: Crumble (v. t.) To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces.
Feldspath :: Feldspath (n.) A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish..
Smash :: Smash (n.) A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.
Harrow :: Harrow (n.) To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex..
Comb :: Comb (n.) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves..
Taint :: Taint (v. t.) To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner..
Flame :: Flame (n.) To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor.
Imbricated :: Imbricated (a.) Lying over each other in regular order, so as to break joints, like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in aestivation..
Infringe :: Infringe (v. i.) To break, violate, or transgress some contract, rule, or law; to injure; to offend..
Snap :: Snap (v. i.) To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps..
Oathbreaking :: Oathbreaking (n.) The violation of an oath; perjury.
Swallow :: Swallet (n.) Water breaking in upon the miners at their work; -- so called among tin miners.
Ratten :: Ratten (v. t.) To deprive feloniously of the tools used in one's employment (as by breaking or stealing them), for the purpose of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike..
Lawbreaker :: Lawbreaker (n.) One who disobeys the law; a criminal.
Squeak :: Squeak (v. i.) To break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or punishment; to speak; to confess.
Consecutive :: Consecutive (a.) Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years..
Dismember :: Dismember (v. t.) To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.
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