Definition of break

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Break (v. t.) To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow..

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Craze :: Craze (v. t.) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.
Crack :: Crack (v. i.) To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts..
Lawbreaker :: Lawbreaker (n.) One who disobeys the law; a criminal.
Wind-break :: Wind-break (v. t.) To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.
Break :: Break (v. t.) An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship..
Infractor :: Infractor (n.) One who infracts or infringes; a violator; a breaker.
Saxifragant :: Saxifragant (n.) That which breaks or destroys stones.
Nicker :: Nicker (v. t.) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence.
Breaker :: Breaker (n.) A small water cask.
Picking :: Picking (n.) The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick..
Outbreak :: Outbreak (n.) A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection.
Gnide :: Gnide (v. t.) To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces.
Cabbling :: Cabbling (n.) The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron..
Break :: Break (v. i.) To open up; to be scattered; to be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking..
Aposiopesis :: Aposiopesis (n.) A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here..
Rupture :: Rupture (n.) The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring..
Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag..
Denutrition :: Denutrition (n.) The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.
Throttle :: Throttle (v. t.) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated..
Luddite :: Luddite (n.) One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames..
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