verb

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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.

adjective

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Financially ruined, bankrupt.

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Without any money, penniless.

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dead broke; flat broke

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Broken.

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If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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Demoted, deprived of a commission.

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He was broke and rendered unfit to serve His Majesty at sea.

Examples of broke in a Sentence

A voice broke into their lovemaking.

Only we really never broke the rules.

No one broke the silence.

I broke his arm before he could toss the match.

To her surprise, he was the one who broke away.

I broke all the rules.

Her voice broke and she stopped, wiping her eyes.

They broke off and rose as she entered.

Finally she broke the silence.

It was late day-three by our calculations when we broke through.

They broke up two squares, your excellency.

When the bridges broke down, unarmed soldiers, people from Moscow and women with children who were with the French transport, all--carried on by vis inertiae-- pressed forward into boats and into the ice-covered water and did not, surrender.

So that was how he broke his nose.

Across the lake, the beginning glow of from the late summer sun broke through the low clouds, signaling an end to the rain.

He rubbed his eyes and a smile broke across his face.

She broke down and called a lawyer.

Flipping it over, she stomped on the bottom until the ice broke loose.

The other conspirators were pardoned, but in 939 a fresh revolt broke out under the leadership of Henry, and Giselbert, duke, of Lorraine.

They'd like to search the LeBlanc's place on the off chance our boy broke in there too and maybe got careless.

The werewolf either slipped through or broke the remaining chains.

She left the chicken coup and broke another trail to the barn.

The conference of Bucharest now broke up, and the war continued.

When the Civil War broke out, he fought on the side of the South and became a brigadier-general.

The three stood looking at each other, speechless, until Jackson broke the silence in his best Hispanic accent, "Lucy… you got some splainin' to do."

She broke into a run, screaming for Katie.

They squawked and pecked at each other as she broke a trail from the tire to the coop.

He nudged the horse in the ribs and Ed broke into a lope.

This time it was Alex who broke off the lovemaking.

He must have had a premonition, because the truck broke down on her way home the following week.

It broke down and I thought you could give me a tow.

His voice broke and he stepped through the door, slamming it.

Dan rallied his team and broke towards the east, where the first flares had appeared.

She broke into a quick trot.

In 1842 the two-volume edition of his Poems broke the ten years' silence which he had enforced himself to keep. Here, with many pieces already known to all lovers of modern verse, were found rich and copious additions to his work.

Under the influence of this reading he now finally broke with classicism and became one of the leaders of the new Sturm and Drang movement.

Ludolf and Conrad were declared deposed, and in 953 war broke out in Lorraine and Swabia, and afterwards in Saxony and Bavaria.

In the autumn of 1875 an insurrection broke out in Bulgaria, and the suppression of it by the Turks was marked by massacres and outrages.

When war broke out between France and Austria in 1792 the Badenese fought for Austria; consequently their country was devastated and in 1796 the margrave was compelled to pay an indemnity, and to cede his territories on the left bank of the Rhine to France.

The new insurrection that now broke out was a more formidable affair than the first.

The earthquake occurred early in the morning of December 28, and so far as Messina was concerned the damage was done chiefly by the shock and by the fires which broke out afterwards; the seismic wave which followed was comparatively innocuous.

On discovering that he had been deceived he broke off all relations with the prince for a year, but their alliance was renewed.

Upon his resignation from Lane Theological Seminary he lived in Boston for a short time, devoting himself to literature; but he broke down, and the last ten years of his life were spent at the home of his son, Henry Ward Beecher, in Brooklyn, New York, where he died on the 10th of January 1863.

Elsewhere he was the artizan-god Ptah, who with his hammer broke the egg; sometimes Thoth, the moon-god and principle of intelligence, who spoke the world into existence.'

Olgierd's most memorable feat was his great victory over the Tatars at Siniya Vodui on the Bug in 1362, which practically broke up the great Kipchak horde and compelled the khan to migrate still farther south and establish his headquarters for the future in the Crimea.

Aurelius, broke away from the traditional Latin of the Silver and Golden ages, and took as his models the pre-classical authors.

War was averted for a moment by the result of the battle of Austerlitz, but it broke out in earnest in October 1806.

After twenty minutes they broke and fled, and the cavalry followed them till broken ground rendered further pursuit impossible.

The great landowners who were developing into feudal lords, and the smaller freemen who were becoming independent burghers, broke the imperial.

Between October 1899, when war broke out, and the 31st of May 1900, when the city was taken by the British, the Boer government worked certain mines for their own benefit.

But after the year 177 a persecution of Christians broke out simultaneously in many provinces of the Empire.

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