Definition of break

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Break (v. t.) To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill..

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Dissolve :: Dissolve (v. t.) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States..
Flexible :: Flexible (a.) Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle..
Break :: Break (v. i.) To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn.
Lunch :: Lunch (n.) A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner..
Fracture :: Fracture (n.) The breaking of a bone.
Mace :: Mace (n.) A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor..
Throttle :: Throttle (v. t.) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated..
Craze :: Craze (v. t.) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.
Infract :: Infract (v. t.) To break; to infringe.
Fracture :: Fracture (n.) The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
Snip :: Snip (v. t.) To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away..
Break :: Break (v. t.) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind..
Shatter :: Shatter (n.) A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters..
Rout :: Rout (v. t.) To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout..
Fractious :: Fractious (a.) Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse..
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..
Smash :: Smash (n.) A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.
Discontinuer :: Discontinuer (n.) One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee..
Shattery :: Shattery (a.) Easily breaking into pieces; not compact; loose of texture; brittle; as, shattery spar..
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