Definition of break

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Break (v. t.) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.

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Dismantle :: Dismantle (v. t.) To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship..
Destroy :: Destroy (v. t.) To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.
To-brest :: To-brest (v. t.) To burst or break in pieces.
Shift :: Shift (v. t.) In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints..
Dissolve :: Dissolve (v. t.) To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament..
Stave :: Stave (n.) To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat..
Shim :: Shim (n.) A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground, and clear it of weeds..
Break :: 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..
Craze :: Craze (v. t.) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.
Strength :: Strength (n.) Power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; -- in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like..
Outbreaking :: Outbreaking (n.) That which bursts forth.
Spurt :: Sourt (n.) Fig.: A sudden outbreak; as, a spurt of jealousy..
Dawn :: Dawn (n.) The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.
Dejeuner :: Dejeuner (n.) A breakfast; sometimes, also, a lunch or collation..
Poop :: Poop (v. i.) To make a noise; to pop; also, to break wind..
Heartbreak :: Heartbreak (n.) Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such grief.
Shatter :: Shatter (n.) A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters..
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..
Bolt :: Bolt (v. i.) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
Discomfit :: Discomfit (v. t.) To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk/ to throw into perplexity and dejection; to disconcert.
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