Definition of break

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Break (v. t.) To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin.

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Orthoclastic :: Orthoclastic (a.) Breaking in directions at right angles to each other; -- said of the monoclinic feldspars.
Break-circuit :: Break-circuit (n.) A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.
Burst :: Burst (v. i.) To exert force or pressure by which something is made suddenly to give way; to break through obstacles or limitations; hence, to appear suddenly and unexpectedly or unaccountably, or to depart in such manner; -- usually with some qualifying adverb or preposition, as forth, out, away, into, upon, through, etc..
Break :: Break (v. t.) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate..
Sever :: Sever (v. t.) To cut or break open or apart; to divide into parts; to cut through; to disjoin; as, to sever the arm or leg..
Break-up :: Break-up (n.) Disruption; a separation and dispersion of the parts or members; as, a break-up of an assembly or dinner party; a break-up of the government..
Nippers :: Nippers (n. pl.) Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting..
Boutade :: Boutade (n.) An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.
Decamp :: Decamp (v. i.) To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly..
Break :: Break (v. t.) The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn..
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..
Roughrider :: Roughrider (n.) One who breaks horses; especially (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer in the British cavalry, whose duty is to assist the riding master..
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..
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..
Hydracrylic :: Hydracrylic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an isomeric variety of lastic acid that breaks down into acrylic acid and water..
Refracture :: Refracture (n.) A second breaking (as of a badly set bone) by the surgeon.
Scab :: Scab (n.) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold..
Iconoclastic :: Iconoclastic (a.) Of or pertaining to the iconoclasts, or to image breaking..
Unspell :: Unspell (v. t.) To break the power of (a spell); to release (a person) from the influence of a spell; to disenchant.
Harrow :: Harrow (n.) To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land..
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