Definition of break

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Break (v. i.) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.

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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.
Ragguled :: Ragguled (a.) Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge..
Broach :: Broach (n.) To cause to begin or break out.
Snap :: Snap (n.) To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle..
Break :: Break (v. t.) To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin.
Poke :: Poke (n.) A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward..
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..
Strong :: Strong (superl.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) by a variation in the root vowel, and the past participle (usually) by the addition of -en (with or without a change of the root vowel); as in the verbs strive, strove, striven; break, broke, broken; drink, drank, drunk. Opposed to weak, or regular. See Weak..
Upbreak :: Upbreak (v. i.) To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.
Flaw :: Flaw (v. t.) To break; to violate; to make of no effect.
Outbreak :: Outbreak (n.) A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection.
Pestle :: Pestle (n.) An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.
Boutade :: Boutade (n.) An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.
Discuss :: Discuss (v. t.) To break to pieces; to shatter.
Screed :: Screed (n.) A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, martial screeds..
Rent :: Rent (n.) An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
Shatter :: Shatter (n.) A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters..
Rider :: Rider (n.) One who breaks or manages a horse.
Pound :: Pound (v. t.) To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt..
Sting :: Sting (v. t.) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it..
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