Definition of break

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Break (v. i.) To fall out; to terminate friendship.

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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..
Friation :: Friation (n.) The act of breaking up or pulverizing.
Upbreak :: Upbreak (v. i.) To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.
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..
Hack :: Hack (n.) An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
Burst :: Burst (v. t.) To break.
Sever :: Sever (v. t.) To cut or break open or apart; to divide into parts; to cut through; to disjoin; as, to sever the arm or leg..
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..
Upbreak :: Upbreak (n.) A breaking upward or bursting forth; an upburst.
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..
Disestablishment :: Disestablishment (n.) The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament..
Breach :: Breach (v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale..
Break :: Break (v. t.) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind..
Break :: Break (v. t.) To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock..
Break :: Break (v. i.) To burst forth violently, as a storm..
Crankle :: Crankle (v. t.) To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle..
Breach :: Breach (n.) A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
Infraction :: Infraction (n.) The act of infracting or breaking; breach; violation; nonobservance; infringement; as, an infraction of a treaty, compact, rule, or law..
Crash :: Crash (n.) A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once..
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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