Definition of break

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Break (v. t.) To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise..

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Dash :: Dash (v. t.) To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin..
Haggard :: Haggard (a.) Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk..
Inbreaking :: Inbreaking (n.) A breaking in; inroad; invasion.
Dissolve :: Dissolve (v. t.) To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament..
Eruptive :: Eruptive (a.) Breaking out or bursting forth.
Break :: Break (v. t.) To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend..
Perbreak :: Perbreak (n.) See Parbreak.
Flame :: Flame (n.) To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor.
Sea Breach :: Sea breach () A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea.
Roll :: Roll (v.) A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
Cob :: Cob (v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions..
Taint :: Taint (n.) An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner..
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..
Spermospore :: Spermospore (n.) The male germinal or seminal cell, from the breaking up of which the spermoblasts are formed and ultimately the spermatozoids; a spermatospore..
Exanthema :: Exanthema (n.) An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever..
Stave :: Stave (n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask..
Snap :: Snap (n.) To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle..
Break :: Break (v. i.) To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty..
Rag :: Rag (v. t.) To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
Fission :: Fission (n.) A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts..
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