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Definition of break

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Break (v. t.) To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend..

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Breach :: Breach (n.) Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise..

Prong-hoe :: Prong-hoe (n.) A hoe with prongs to break the earth.

Meat :: Meat (n.) The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat..

Oathbreaking :: Oathbreaking (n.) The violation of an oath; perjury.

Break :: Break (v. t.) To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle..

Inbreaking :: Inbreaking (n.) A breaking in; inroad; invasion.

Pounding :: Pounding (n.) The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating..

Dengue :: Dengue (n.) A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal..

Decamp :: Decamp (v. i.) To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly..

Crashing :: Crashing (n.) The noise of many things falling and breaking at once.

Shiver :: Shiver (v. t.) To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet..

Dash :: Dash (n.) A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis..

Sting :: Sting (v. t.) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it..

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..

Craze :: Craze (v. t.) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.

Sponge :: Sponge (v. t.) Fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast..

Parbreak :: Parbreak (n.) Vomit.

Breakfast :: Breakfast (n.) A meal after fasting, or food in general..

Idoloclast :: Idoloclast (n.) A breaker of idols; an iconoclast.

Trowel :: Trowel (n.) A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them..