Definition of break

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

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Fracture :: Fracture (v. t.) To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull..
Sewel :: Sewel (n.) A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place..
Disestablish :: Disestablish (v. t.) To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state..
Pounding :: Pounding (n.) The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating..
Break :: Break (v. i.) To burst forth violently, as a storm..
Break :: Break (v. t.) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares..
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..
Glass-snake :: Glass-snake (n.) A long, footless lizard (Ophiosaurus ventralis), of the Southern United States; -- so called from its fragility, the tail easily breaking into small pieces. It grows to the length of three feet. The name is applied also to similar species found in the Old World..
Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (n.) The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves..
Transgress :: Transgress (v. t.) Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the /imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral..
Breakfasting :: Breakfasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breakfas.
Break :: Break (v. i.) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.
Attenuate :: Attenuate (v. t.) To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts..
Pliant :: Pliant (v.) Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart..
Brake :: Brake () imp. of Break.
Dismantle :: Dismantle (v. t.) To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship..
Strand :: Strand (v. t.) To break a strand of (a rope).
Snap :: Snap (v. i.) To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps..
Flash :: Flash (v. i.) To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.
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