Definition of break

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Break (v. t.) An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc..

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Ripple :: Ripple (v. i.) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore..
Petard :: Petard (n.) A case containing powder to be exploded, esp. a conical or cylindrical case of metal filled with powder and attached to a plank, to be exploded against and break down gates, barricades, drawbridges, etc. It has been superseded..
Breakman :: Breakman (n.) See Brakeman.
Breakneck :: Breakneck (n.) A fall that breaks the neck.
Breakneck :: Breakneck (n.) A steep place endangering the neck.
Meat :: Meat (n.) The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat..
Dissociation :: Dissociation (n.) The process by which a compound body breaks up into simpler constituents; -- said particularly of the action of heat on gaseous or volatile substances; as, the dissociation of the sulphur molecules; the dissociation of ammonium chloride into hydrochloric acid and ammonia..
Broke :: Broke () imp. & p. p. of Break.
Giving :: Giving (n.) The act of softening, breaking, or yielding..
Break :: Break (v. t.) To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind..
Cut-out :: Cut-out (n.) A device for breaking or separating a portion of circuit.
Dismount :: Dismount (v. t.) To throw or remove from the carriage, or from that on which a thing is mounted; to break the carriage or wheels of, and render useless; to deprive of equipments or mountings; -- said esp. of artillery..
Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.
Spend :: Spend (v. i.) To break ground; to continue working.
Breach :: Breach (n.) The act of breaking, in a figurative sense..
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..
Breakneck :: Breakneck (a.) Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed..
Cobwork :: Cobwork (a.) Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater..
Spermospore :: Spermospore (n.) The male germinal or seminal cell, from the breaking up of which the spermoblasts are formed and ultimately the spermatozoids; a spermatospore..
Discuss :: Discuss (v. t.) To break up; to disperse; to scatter; to dissipate; to drive away; -- said especially of tumors.
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