Word Finder - breaking

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To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.

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If the vase falls to the floor, it might break.

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To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.

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Can you break a hundred-dollar bill for me?

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To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.

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Her child's death broke Angela.

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To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.

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My heart is breaking.

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To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.

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I had won four games in a row, but now you've broken my streak of luck.

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To ruin financially.

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The recession broke some small businesses.

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To violate, to not adhere to.

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He broke his vows by cheating on his wife.

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(of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, in terms of temperature.

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Susan's fever broke at about 3 AM, and the doctor said the worst was over.

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(of a spell of settled weather) To end.

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The forecast says the hot weather will break by midweek.

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(of a storm) To begin; to end.

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Around midday the storm broke, and the afternoon was calm and sunny.

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(of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.

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Morning has broken.

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To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.

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Changing the rules to let white have three extra queens would break chess.

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To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.

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Did you two break the trolley by racing with it?

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To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.

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break a seal

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To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.

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The cavalry were not able to break the British squares.

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(of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.

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To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.

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To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.

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Let's break for lunch.

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To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.

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He survived the jump out the window because the bushes below broke his fall.

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To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.

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I don't know how to break this to you, but your cat is not coming back.

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(of a sound) To become audible suddenly.

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To change a steady state abruptly.

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His coughing broke the silence.

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To suddenly become.

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The arrest was standard, when suddenly the suspect broke ugly.

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Of a male voice, to become deeper at puberty.

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Of a voice, to alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down; to crack.

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His voice breaks when he gets emotional.

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To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a new record.

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He broke the men's 100-meter record.

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(most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.

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To end (a connection), to disconnect.

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I couldn't hear a thing he was saying, so I broke the connection and called him back.

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(of an emulsion) To demulsify.

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To counter-attack

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To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.

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To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.

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To fail in business; to become bankrupt.

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To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.

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to break flax

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To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.

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To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.

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to break into a run or gallop

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To fall out; to terminate friendship.

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To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.

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To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.

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The act by which something is broken.

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A change of a vowel to a diphthong

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A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones

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Breakdancing

Breaking all the rules.

God, I'm sorry, breaking down like that.

Her heart was breaking.

He died in Mexico, from the kick of a horse he was breaking in, on the 7th of February 1692.

Sultan Mahmud now devoted himself to breaking the overgrown power of the local governors, which had for many years practically annihilated that of the central authority.

Toni asked, breaking their tense silence.

His hand fell from her leg, breaking her trance enough that she looked away.

The only thing that kept her from breaking down was the fact that Jonathan and Destiny needed her.

She sobbed, her emotions from the week's events breaking free.

The sovereigns of Sardinia, Naples, Portugal and Spain were dethroned, the pope was driven from Rome, the Rhine Confederation was extended till France obtained a footing on the Baltic, the grand-duchy of Warsaw was reorganized and strengthened, the promised evacuation of Prussia was indefinitely postponed, an armistice between Russia and Turkey was negotiated by French diplomacy in such a way that the Russian troops should evacuate the Danubian principalities, which Alexander intended to annex to his empire, and the scheme for breaking up the Ottoman empire and ruining England by the conquest of India, which had been one of the most attractive baits in the Tilsit negotiations, but which had not been formulated in the treaty, was no longer spoken of.

Disciplined troops as they were, they resisted the temptation to escape Ferrara's fire by breaking out to the front; but the whole Spanish line was enfiladed, and on the left of it the papal troops, who were by no means of the same quality, filled up the ditch in front of their breastworks and charged forward, followed by all the gendarmerie.

In Clepsine (Glossiphonia) there is a further breaking up of the coelom.

Labour difficulties, low prices of produce, bad seasons and similar causes provided inducements for leaving the land in grass for two years, or over three years or more, before breaking it up for wheat.

The division of the foot into lobes is a simple case of that much greater elaboration or breaking up into processes and regions which it undergoes in the class Cephalopoda.

The discovery of the Cape route saved the breaking of bulk between India and Europe, and saved the dues exacted by the masters of Syria and Egypt.

Marius, finding himself overshadowed by his colleagues and compromised by their excesses, thought seriously of breaking with them, and Saturninus and Glaucia saw that their only hope 1 According to some, the son of the Caepio mentioned above.

These bands are due to molecular oscillations; Hartley suggests the carbon atoms to be rotating and forming alternately single and double linkages, the formation of three double links giving three bands, and of three single links another three; Baly and Collie, on the other hand, suggest the making and breaking of links between adjacent atoms, pointing out that there are seven combinations of one, two and three pairs of carbon atoms in the benzene molecule.

To Spohr the frequency of these incidents must have produced the impression that Wagner was perpetually beginning arias and breaking them off at once.

Fanatics sought death by insulting the magistrates or by breaking idols, and in their enthusiasm for martyrdom became self-centred and forgetful of their normal duty.

Commagene was independent under a king,MithradatesCallinicus, in the earlier part of the last century B.C. Syria itself in the last days of the Seleucid dynasty is seen to be breaking up into petty principalities, Greek or native.

One account says that it was caused by a broken bridge which delayed the Conqueror's advance to the north, but this is known to have been at Ferrybridge, three miles away; a second says that the new name was derived from a Norman town called Pontfrete, which, however, never existed; and a third that it was caused by the breaking of a bridge in 1153 on the arrival of the archbishop of York, St William,.

But Sunday Schools were first adopted by Charles to meet the case of young people in service who could not attend during the week, and even in that form much opposition was shown to them because teaching was thought to be a form of Sabbath breaking.

Wohl (Ber., 1893, 26, p. 730) in the " breaking down " of the sugars.

The pope urged the king of Hungary to take advantage of this favourable opportunity by breaking the truce solemnly agreed upon, and nineteen days after it had been concluded a coalition was formed against the Turks; a large army headed by Ladislaus I., king of Hungary, Hunyadi, voivode of Walachia, and Cardinal Cesarini crossed the Danube and reached Varna, where they hoped to be joined by the Greek emperor.

The Passover was kept in the first month on the 14th day of the month at even in the wilderness of Sinai; but certain men, unclean by touching a dead body, asked what they should do; they were to keep it on the second month on the 14th day, eating it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, leaving none of it until the morning, nor breaking a bone.

Unsettled claims by French citizens led to a breaking off of relations and the occupation of Mitylene by France in November 1901; the rupture was of short duration and Turkey soon gave way, according complete satisfaction both in this matter and on certain other French demands.

By a night march of unexampled daring and difficulty Ney succeeded in breaking through the Russian cordon, but when he regained touch with the main body at Orcha only Boo of his 6000 men were still with him (2 ist).

About the time of the maxima there must be a longer tidal range (that is, a greater rise and fall than the average); the difference between neap tides and spring tides will also be increased, and as results of these conditions there must be great tidal floods breaking over lowlying coasts and producing extensive denudation.

There is evidence that, towards the close of the mediaeval period, great storms and tidal inundations occurred on the shores of the North Sea and Baltic, and in the course of these floods, culminating in 1297, the Zuider Zee was formed from a lake that existed in its neighbourhood, by the breaking down of dykes.

The general trend of these researches lies in the study of the decomposition or " breaking down " products of the albumin molecules; once these are accurately determined, the synthesis of an albumin is but a matter of time.

Unfortunately siege of San a conflagration breaking out near the breaches Sebastian, caused it to be postponed until nightfall, when, the July 10.24, breaches in the interval having been strengthened, 1813' it was delivered unsuccessfully and with heavy loss.

It is obtained by breaking up the roots or rhizomes in hot water and separating the rubber, and machines have now been devised for this purpose.

The technical value of caoutchouc chiefly depends on the extent to which it is capable of being stretched without breaking, and the extent to which it at once returns to its original dimensions.

The ventral valve in many of the genera is provided with two curved hinge-teeth, which fit into corresponding sockets in the opposite valve, so that the valves cannot be separated without breaking one of the teeth.

On the breaking out of the Rye House Plot, of which neither he, Essex, nor Sidney had the slightest knowledge, he was accused by informers of promising his assistance to raise an insurrection and compass the death of the king.

But this small beginning of good fortune was embittered by the deaths of his father and his eldest sister, and by the breaking up of the home at Quickborn.

To prevent the breaking down of their properties, the necessary consequence of this law of inheritance, there is no doubt that infanticide was common among them, and that it extended to the male as well as the female progeny, but it has been put down by the Infanticide Rules, which provide for the registration of Jareja children.

Add to these the eroded river basins of the Xingu, Tapajos and Guapore on the north and west, the Paraguay on the south-west, and the scores of smaller rivers along the Atlantic coast, and we may have some conception of the agencies that have been at work in breaking down and shaping this great table-land, perhaps the oldest part of the continent.

The more northern rivers are subject to periodical variations in volume caused by wet and dry seasons, but the greater distance of the coast range and the more gradual breaking down of the plateau toward the sea, give them longer courses and a greater extent of navigable water.

The bank, in addition to its private functions, farmed many of the regalia, and was in the practice of advancing large sums to the state, transactions which gave rise to extensive corruption, and terminated some years later in the breaking of the bank.

A heavy sea from the Indian Ocean is always breaking on the shore, even in the finest weather, and at the mouth of every natural harbour a bar occurs.

Society itself must take the initiative by breaking down the barriers of class exclusiveness and reviving a healthy public spirit.

The central authority in Austria was steadily breaking down, and the food crisis was rendered still more acute by the widespread formation of " Green Cadres " - well organized armed bands which held positions in the mountains and defied capture.

Whatever value is to be attached to Mendel's observation of the breaking up of self-fertilized hybrids of cultivated varieties into the two original parent forms according to the formula " 'PP, 2PN, INN," it cannot be considered as more than a contribution to the extensive investigation of heredity which still remains to be carried out.

In consequence of the breaking away of the lower part of "Cleopatra's Needles" when removed to Alexandria and re-erected, the Roman engineers supported the angles on bronze crabs, one of which with three reproductions now supports the angles of the obelisk on the Thames Embankment.

The greater part of its body is covered by a pattern of acanthus leaves, but on the shoulder is a frieze showing nomads breaking in wild mares, our chief authority for Scythian costume.

The only set-back was the descent which Beyers made upon Pietersburg, breaking into the concentration camp and carrying off a number of able-bodied refugees.

In 310 Agathocles, defeated and besieged in Syracuse, took the desperate resolve of breaking through the blockade and attacking the enemy in Africa.

Basing his foreign policy upon the alliance, as supplemented by the naval entente with Great Britain negotiated by his predecessor, Count Robilant, Crispi assumed a resolute attitude towards France, breaking off the prolonged and unfruitful negotiations for a new Franco-Italian commercial treaty, and refusing the French invitation to organize an Italian section at the Paris Exhibition of 1889.

The army was now thoroughly out of heart, and Demosthenes was for at once breaking up the camp, embarking the troops, and sailing back to Athens.