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.

example

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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Fragmented, in separate pieces.

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(of a promise, etc) Breached; violated; not kept.

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broken promises of neutrality

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Non-functional; not functioning properly.

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I think my doorbell is broken.

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(of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.

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The bankruptcy and divorce, together with the death of his son, left him completely broken.

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Having no money; bankrupt, broke.

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(of land) Uneven.

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(of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.

Examples of broken in a Sentence

They had broken the rules.

You don't sound very broken up about it.

She died of a broken heart.

These will be replacing our broken radars.

He'd chosen to stay with her that long, and she'd broken Immortal laws to take her place as his mate.

The case was broken and the keys are nearly all out.

Her only chance at safety was across a swath of broken glass.

He said Destiny's fever had broken and if she continued to improve, they would take the tent off her bed in a few days.

I'd have to have broken in.

You are like me, too broken to pretend not to be.

She'd broken down for weeks, sobbing and refusing to leave her house.

They continued up the hill, past the place where the wild dogs had broken through so long ago, and on toward the spring.

Deidre didn't know what to do about the trail of broken hearts past-Deidre had left.

Windows that can't be broken and can switch from opaque to clear.

Soul radars are still broken, but we can at least travel to the mortal world.

He nodded and his gaze dropped to the broken phone.

Suppose now that the sphere's earth connexion is broken and that it is carried without loss of charge inside a building at zero potential.

Seeing her so broken pained him.

Aaron told me he was taking him to the doctor because he had a broken nose.

Only once afterward in fifteen years was their constant companionship broken for more than a few days at a time.

However, I should never have broken a horse or bull and taken him to board for any work he might do for me, for fear I should become a horseman or a herdsman merely; and if society seems to be the gainer by so doing, are we certain that what is one man's gain is not another's loss, and that the stable-boy has equal cause with his master to be satisfied?

The ground to the right--along the course of the Kolocha and Moskva rivers--was broken and hilly.

She saw Cody's broken body again in her mind and pushed it away.

He heard a tinkle of broken glass far below him as tears coursed down his cheeks.

The emeralds in the mortal lakes, the uncollected souls, the broken radars, the demons stealing souls.

The road wound through meadows broken up by thatches of

The warrior closed the door behind him, his gaze on the broken book.

And yet the curse he'd feared was broken!

Our right flank is over there"--he pointed sharply to the right, far away in the broken ground--"That's where the Moskva River is, and we have thrown up three redoubts there, very strong ones.

Oh, ooh! his frightened moans could be heard, subdued by suffering and broken by sobs.

The German who knew little French, answered the two first questions by giving the names of his regiment and of his commanding officer, but in reply to the third question which he did not understand said, introducing broken French into his own German, that he was the quartermaster of the regiment and his commander had ordered him to occupy all the houses one after another.

That night the doors were again broken open, the padlocks smashed, the books mutilated, and other disorders perpetrated.

And flourishing his whip he rode off at a gallop for the first time during the whole campaign, and left the broken ranks of the soldiers laughing joyfully and shouting "Hurrah!"

He was evidently tipsy, and was singing a French song in a hoarse broken voice, with an arm thrown round the nearest soldier.

Jule could've broken her in two and hadn't.

He had the right people helping him, a mate who reluctantly agreed to his plan to help her, a better understanding of when to break the Code and a plan to repair all that was broken within his domain on the mortal realm.

Lana, see what's broken.

I met him when he was a broken soul.

They spoke in broken English, but they appeared to understand what she wanted.

I think his nose is broken.

Her forearm was starting to swell, as if he'd broken or sprained it.

If we examine such a substance as sugar we find that it can be broken up into fine grains, and these again into finer, the finest particles still appearing to be of the same nature as sugar.

The Norwegian connexion was broken in 1266, and in 1334 Man was detached from the Scottish islands.

Finally (c), in the so-called " post-exilic " period, religion and life were reorganized under the influence of a new spirit; relations with Samaria were broken off, and Judaism took its definite character, perhaps about the middle or close of the 5th century.

The descendants of the detested Phoenician marriage were rooted out, and unless the close intercourse between Israel and Judah had been suddenly broken, it would be supposed that the new king at least laid claim to the south.

But the relations between Egypt and Judah were not broken off.

The Temple, palace and city buildings were burned, the walls broken down, the chief priest Seraiah, the second priest Zephaniah, and other leaders were put to death, and a large body of people was again carried away.

But the old continuity was not entirely broken; there was a return to earlier conditions, and life moved more freely in its wonted channels.

They look back from the age when half-suppressed hostility with Samaria had broken out, and when an exclusive Judaism had been formed.

At a time when all nationalities, and at the same time all bonds of religion and national customs, were beginning to be broken up in the seeming cosmos and real chaos of the Graeco-Roman Empire, the Jews stood out like a rock in the midst of the ocean.

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