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Tryst :: Tryst (n.) An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst..

Taint :: Taint (v. t.) To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner..

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..

Elide :: Elide (v. t.) To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument..

Break :: Break (v. t.) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax..

Cut-out :: Cut-out (n.) A device for breaking or separating a portion of circuit.

Erumpent :: Erumpent (a.) Breaking out; -- said of certain fungi which burst through the texture of leaves.

Interrupt :: Interrupt (v. t.) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill..

Shatter :: Shatter (v. t.) To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning..

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..

Sea Breach :: Sea breach () A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea.

Break :: Break (v. i.) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking..

Crumble :: Crumble (v. t.) To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces.

Aposiopesis :: Aposiopesis (n.) A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here..

Dash :: Dash (n.) A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis..

Dissolution :: Dissolution (n.) The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership.

Heartbreak :: Heartbreak (n.) Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such grief.

Upbreak :: Upbreak (n.) A breaking upward or bursting forth; an upburst.

Chipping :: Chipping (n.) The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc..

Lawbreaker :: Lawbreaker (n.) One who disobeys the law; a criminal.

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