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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Shell :: Shell (v. t.) To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters..
Spalt :: Spalt (a.) Liable to break or split; brittle; as, spalt timber..
Pounding :: Pounding (n.) The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating..
Brake :: Brake () imp. of Break.
Oathbreaking :: Oathbreaking (n.) The violation of an oath; perjury.
Fritter :: Fritter (v. t.) To break into small pieces or fragments.
Undertow :: Undertow (n.) The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are breaking upon the shore.
Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.
Smash :: Smash (n.) A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.
Flute :: Flute (n.) A long French breakfast roll.
Lithotriptist :: Lithotriptist (n.) One skilled in breaking and extracting stone in the bladder.
Chipping :: Chipping (n.) The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc..
Breakwater :: Breakwater (n.) Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence..
Break :: Break (v. t.) To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind..
Break :: 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..
Rupture :: Rupture (v. t.) To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel..
Break :: Break (v. t.) An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation..
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..
Rupture :: Rupture (n.) The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring..
Snap :: Snap (v. i.) To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps..
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