Definition of break

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Break (v. t.) To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments.

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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..
Disorganize :: Disorganize (v. t.) To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange..
Rag :: Rag (v. t.) To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
Flute :: Flute (n.) A long French breakfast roll.
Breakfasting :: Breakfasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breakfas.
Break :: Break (v. t.) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax..
Whitecap :: Whitecap (n.) A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening..
Crack :: Crack (v. i.) To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts..
Rabbet :: Rabbet (n.) A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of any body; especially, one intended to receive another member, so as to break or cover the joint, or more easily to hold the members in place; thus, the groove cut for a panel, for a pane of glass, or for a door, is a rabbet, or rebate..
Breakdown :: Breakdown (n.) Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time..
Enrockment :: Enrockment (n.) A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc..
Break :: Break (v. t.) To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods..
Spelt :: Spelt (v. t. & i.) To split; to break; to spalt.
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..
Shatter :: Shatter (v. t.) To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning..
Break :: Break (v. i.) To burst forth violently, as a storm..
Squeak :: Squeak (v. i.) To break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or punishment; to speak; to confess.
Yaw :: Yaw (v. i.) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works..
Icequake :: Icequake (n.) The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold..
Disband :: Disband (v. i.) To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization..
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