Definition of break

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Break (v. t.) To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods..

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Break :: Break (v. i.) To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder..
Smash :: Smash (n.) A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.
Train :: Train (v. t.) To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen..
Upbreak :: Upbreak (n.) A breaking upward or bursting forth; an upburst.
Disestablishment :: Disestablishment (n.) The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament..
Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States..
Crumb :: Crumb (v. t.) To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread..
Tiffin :: Tiffin (n.) A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; -- originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a special sense..
Bond :: Bond (n.) The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break jo
Strand :: Strand (v. t.) To break a strand of (a rope).
Eruptive :: Eruptive (a.) Breaking out or bursting forth.
Crash :: Crash (v. i.) To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof..
Pounding :: Pounding (n.) The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating..
Break :: Break (v. i.) To fall in business; to become bankrupt.
Breakneck :: Breakneck (a.) Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed..
Cabbling :: Cabbling (n.) The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron..
Crankle :: Crankle (v. t.) To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle..
Burst :: Burst (v. t.) To break.
Breakfast :: Breakfast (v. t.) To furnish with breakfast.
Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses..
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