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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Interrupter :: Interrupter (n.) A device for opening and closing an electrical circuit; a vibrating spring or tuning fork, arranged to make and break a circuit at rapidly recurring intervals, by the action of the current itself..
Overrake :: Overrake (v. t.) To rake over, or sweep across, from end to end, as waves that break over a vessel anchored with head to the sea..
Disunite :: Disunite (v. t.) To alienate in spirit; to break the concord of.
Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.
Outbreak :: Outbreak (n.) A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection.
Breakage :: Breakage (n.) The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken..
Crack :: Crack (v. i.) To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts..
Crack :: Crack (v. t.) To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts..
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..
Breach :: Breach (n.) A breaking out upon; an assault.
Crankle :: Crankle (v. t.) To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle..
Dismast :: Dismast (v. t.) To deprive of a mast of masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship..
Rupture :: Rupture (v. t.) To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel..
Breakfast :: Breakfast (n.) The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal..
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..
Nippers :: Nippers (n. pl.) Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting..
Parbreak :: Parbreak (n.) Vomit.
To-break :: To-break (v. t.) To break completely; to break in pieces.
Shiver :: Shiver (v. t.) To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet..
Disestablish :: Disestablish (v. t.) To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state..
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