Definition of break

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

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Infractor :: Infractor (n.) One who infracts or infringes; a violator; a breaker.
Iconoclasm :: Iconoclasm (n.) The doctrine or practice of the iconoclasts; image breaking.
Discomfit :: Discomfit (v. t.) To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk/ to throw into perplexity and dejection; to disconcert.
Spall :: Spall (v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of separating from rock..
Emeute :: Emeute (n.) A seditious tumult; an outbreak.
Shell :: Shell (v. t.) To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters..
Crumb :: Crumb (v. t.) To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread..
Breachy :: Breachy (a.) Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle..
Train :: Train (v. t.) To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen..
Infraction :: Infraction (n.) The act of infracting or breaking; breach; violation; nonobservance; infringement; as, an infraction of a treaty, compact, rule, or law..
Transgress :: Transgress (v. t.) Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the /imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral..
Undertow :: Undertow (n.) The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are breaking upon the shore.
Uncamp :: Uncamp (v. t.) To break up the camp of; to dislodge from camp.
Guard :: Guard (v. t.) An interleaved strip at the back, as in a scrap book, to guard against its breaking when filled..
Chipping :: Chipping (n.) The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape..
Crash :: Crash (v. i.) To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof..
Running :: Running (a.) Successive; one following the other without break or intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away two days running; to sow land two years running..
Lawbreaker :: Lawbreaker (n.) One who disobeys the law; a criminal.
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..
Heartbreaking :: Heartbreaking (a.) Causing overpowering sorrow.
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