Definition of break

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

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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..
Breakneck :: Breakneck (n.) A steep place endangering the neck.
Spend :: Spend (v. i.) To break ground; to continue working.
Tryst :: Tryst (n.) An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst..
Saxifragant :: Saxifragant (a.) Breaking or destroying stones; saxifragous.
Entry :: Entry (n.) The act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary.
Guard :: Guard (v. t.) An interleaved strip at the back, as in a scrap book, to guard against its breaking when filled..
Debacle :: Debacle (n.) A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other debris..
Overrake :: Overrake (v. t.) To rake over, or sweep across, from end to end, as waves that break over a vessel anchored with head to the sea..
Disjoint :: Disjoint (v. t.) To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech..
Washboard :: Washboard (n.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard..
Oathbreaking :: Oathbreaking (n.) The violation of an oath; perjury.
Broach :: Broach (n.) To cause to begin or break out.
Glucoside :: Glucoside (n.) One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste, but, by the action of ferments, or of dilute acids and alkalies, always break down into some characteristic substance (acid, aldehyde, alcohol, phenole, or alkaloid) and glucose (or some other sugar); hence the name. They are of the natur
Hiatus :: Hiatus (n.) An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break..
Piccage :: Piccage (n.) Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths.
Interrupt :: Interrupt (v. t.) To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking..
Sponge :: Sponge (v. t.) Fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast..
Uprush :: Uprush (n.) Act of rushing upward; an upbreak or upburst; as, an uprush of lava..
Bolt :: Bolt (v. i.) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
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