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.

example

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

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

example

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.

example

Her child's death broke Angela.

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To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.

example

My heart is breaking.

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

example

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

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To ruin financially.

example

The recession broke some small businesses.

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To violate, to not adhere to.

example

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.

example

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.

example

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.

example

Did you two break the trolley by racing with it?

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To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.

example

break a seal

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

example

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.

example

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.

example

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.

example

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.

example

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.

example

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.

example

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.

example

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.

example

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.

example

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

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Demoted, deprived of a commission.

example

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

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