Definition of break

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Break (v. t.) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey..

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Divide :: Divide (v. i.) To break friendship; to fall out.
Boutade :: Boutade (n.) An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.
Shift :: Shift (v. t.) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
Friation :: Friation (n.) The act of breaking up or pulverizing.
Snap :: Snap (v. i.) To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps..
Snub :: Snub (v. t.) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.
Bruise :: Bruise (v. t.) To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush..
Malacosteon :: Malacosteon (n.) A peculiar disease of the bones, in consequence of which they become softened and capable of being bent without breaking..
Dismast :: Dismast (v. t.) To deprive of a mast of masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship..
Petard :: Petard (n.) A case containing powder to be exploded, esp. a conical or cylindrical case of metal filled with powder and attached to a plank, to be exploded against and break down gates, barricades, drawbridges, etc. It has been superseded..
Spalt :: Spalt (a.) Liable to break or split; brittle; as, spalt timber..
Indican :: Indican (n.) A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and other plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup. It has a nauseous bitter taste, a decomposes or drying. By the action of acids, ferments, etc., it breaks down into sugar and indigo. It is the source of natural indigo..
Ossifragous :: Ossifragous (a.) Serving to break bones; bone-breaking.
Faller :: Faller (n.) A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks..
Idoloclast :: Idoloclast (n.) A breaker of idols; an iconoclast.
Entry :: Entry (n.) The act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary.
Fraction :: Fraction (n.) The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence..
Unseal :: Unseal (v. t.) To break or remove the seal of; to open, as what is sealed; as, to unseal a letter..
Housebreaker :: Housebreaker (n.) One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking.
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..
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