Definition of break

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Break (v. t.) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate..

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Break :: Break (v. t.) An opening made by fracture or disruption.
Fission :: Fission (n.) A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts..
Elide :: Elide (v. t.) To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument..
Pistillation :: Pistillation (n.) The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation.
Break :: Break (v. t.) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
Protovertebra :: Protovertebra (n.) One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite. See Illust. of Ectoderm..
Break :: Break (v. t.) An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc..
Short :: Short (superl.) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry..
Discontinuer :: Discontinuer (n.) One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee..
Drag :: Drag (v. t.) To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag..
Breaker :: Breaker (n.) Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed..
Disband :: Disband (v. i.) To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization..
Frangent :: Frangent (a.) Causing fracture; breaking.
Carronade :: Carronade (n.) A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side..
Whitecap :: Whitecap (n.) A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening..
Brittleness :: Brittleness (n.) Aptness to break; fragility.
Crack :: Crack (v. t.) To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts..
Crash :: Crash (n.) Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise..
Nippers :: Nippers (n. pl.) Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting..
Crase :: Crase (v. t.) To break in pieces; to crack.
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