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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..

Hanch :: Hanch () A sudden fall or break, as the fall of the fife rail down to the gangway..

Crash :: Crash (n.) Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise..

Enrockment :: Enrockment (n.) A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc..

Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores..

Ripple :: Ripple (v. i.) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore..

Iconoclasm :: Iconoclasm (n.) The doctrine or practice of the iconoclasts; image breaking.

Osteoclasis :: Osteoclasis (n.) The operation of breaking a bone in order to correct deformity.

Denutrition :: Denutrition (n.) The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.

Squeak :: Squeak (v. i.) To break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or punishment; to speak; to confess.

Flashing :: Flashing (n.) Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting..

Enchantment :: Enchantment (n.) The effect produced by the act; the state of being enchanted; as, to break an enchantment..

Incide :: Incide (v. t.) To cut; to separate and remove; to resolve or break up, as by medicines..

Break-circuit :: Break-circuit (n.) A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.

Dwindle :: Dwindle (v. t.) To break; to disperse.

Frangent :: Frangent (a.) Causing fracture; breaking.

Sunder :: Sunder (v. t.) To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends..

Crisp :: Crisp (a.) Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow..

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..

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..

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