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Definition of break

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Break (v. i.) To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty..

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Interpel :: Interpel (v. t.) To interrupt, break in upon, or intercede with..

Breach :: Breach (n.) A breaking out upon; an assault.

Mace :: Mace (n.) A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor..

Sponge :: Sponge (v. t.) Fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast..

Luddite :: Luddite (n.) One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames..

Disintegrate :: Disintegrate (v. t.) To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences..

Fracture :: Fracture (n.) The breaking of a bone.

Peeper :: Peeper (n.) A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.

Nippers :: Nippers (n. pl.) Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting..

Knapple :: Knapple (v.) To break off with an abrupt, sharp noise; to bite; to nibble..

Split :: Split (v. t.) To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite..

Outbreaking :: Outbreaking (n.) The act of breaking out.

Taint :: Taint (n.) An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner..

Gall :: Gall (v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable..

Boutade :: Boutade (n.) An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.

Spelt :: Spelt (v. t. & i.) To split; to break; to spalt.

Crashing :: Crashing (n.) The noise of many things falling and breaking at once.

Roll :: Roll (v.) A heavy cylinder used to break clods.

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

Pace :: Pace (v. t.) To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in..