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BREAK
- brief rest
- to remove a cargo wholly or in part
- to be admitted into; enter, as a business or profession
- to shatter or damage [v -ING, -S]
- to disrupt; upset
- to end (a close personal relationship)
- to be or cause to be overcome with laughter
- to sever relations with; separate from
- to depart from; repudiate
- to split into pieces
- to make useless
- to fracture
- to fail to keep (a promise, law, etc.)
- to leave or escape, esp. suddenly or hurriedly
- to sever connections or allegiance, as to tradition or a political group
- to start prematurely
- to win a game served by an opponent immediately after the opponent has done so against one's own serve
- to pack up tents and equipment and resume a journey or march
- to cease to function
- to finish a business transaction, period of gambling, series of games, etc., with no loss or gain
- to begin construction, esp. of a building or group of buildings
- to free an anchor from the bottom; break out
- to enter by force or craft
- to train or instruct; initiate
- to begin to wear or use in order to make comfortable
- to interrupt
- to run (new machinery) gently until all parts are ready for full operation
- to enter with force upon or accidentally interrupt; intrude upon
- to interpose; interrupt
- to begin some activity
- to enter by force
- stop it; calm down
- (used as an exclamation of disbelief) that can't be true!
- to sever by breaking
- to stop suddenly; discontinue
- to begin abruptly
- to become visible
- to escape
- to win a game served by one's opponent
- (of an anchored vessel) to drift into such a position as to risk fouling the anchor or anchor cable
- to separate; scatter
- to discontinue
- to divide or become divided into pieces
- to dissolve
- to reveal, as news
- to ruin financially
- to wear down the spirit of
- to split into fragments
- to become useless
- to become disconnected
- to interrupt an activity
- opening made by breaking
- the act of breaking
- interruption
- abrupt change
- opportunity
- to reduce to fragments [v BREAKING, BREAKS, BROKE, BROKEN, BROKEN]