Definition of break

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Break (v. i.) To burst forth violently, as a storm..

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Ossifragous :: Ossifragous (a.) Serving to break bones; bone-breaking.
Flexible :: Flexible (a.) Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle..
Haggard :: Haggard (a.) Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk..
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..
Heartbreaking :: Heartbreaking (a.) Causing overpowering sorrow.
Breakfasting :: Breakfasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breakfas.
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..
Shive :: Shive (n.) A thin piece or fragment; specifically, one of the scales or pieces of the woody part of flax removed by the operation of breaking..
Carronade :: Carronade (n.) A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side..
Breakfast :: Breakfast (n.) The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal..
Enchantment :: Enchantment (n.) The effect produced by the act; the state of being enchanted; as, to break an enchantment..
Tryst :: Tryst (n.) An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst..
To-break :: To-break (v. t.) To break completely; to break in pieces.
Crash :: Crash (v. t. ) To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.
Saxifragant :: Saxifragant (n.) That which breaks or destroys stones.
Smash :: Smash (n.) A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.
Break :: Break (v. i.) To fall in business; to become bankrupt.
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..
Disjoint :: Disjoint (v. t.) To separate at junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint and edifice..
Break :: Break (v. t.) To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow..
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