Definition of break

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Break (v. i.) To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder..

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Cavezon :: Cavezon (n.) A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses.
Piccage :: Piccage (n.) Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths.
Haemocytotrypsis :: Haemocytotrypsis (n.) A breaking up of the blood corpuscles, as by pressure, in distinction from solution of the corpuscles, or haemcytolysis..
Protovertebra :: Protovertebra (n.) One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite. See Illust. of Ectoderm..
Break :: Break (v. i.) To fall in business; to become bankrupt.
Refract :: Refract (n.) To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.
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..
Interruption :: Interruption (n.) The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon..
Pound-breach :: Pound-breach (n.) The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals.
Giving :: Giving (n.) The act of softening, breaking, or yielding..
Discomfit :: Discomfit (v. t.) To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk/ to throw into perplexity and dejection; to disconcert.
Smash :: Smash (n.) A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.
Wind-break :: Wind-break (v. t.) To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.
Breakfast :: Breakfast (v. t.) To furnish with breakfast.
Break :: Break (v. i.) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking..
Interrupt :: Interrupt (v. t.) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill..
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..
Stretch :: Stretch (v. i.) To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances..
Gap :: Gap (n.) An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass..
Flint :: Flint (n.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel..
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