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Definition of break

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Break (v. t.) To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend..

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Break :: Break (v. t.) To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow..

Emeute :: Emeute (n.) A seditious tumult; an outbreak.

Cobwork :: Cobwork (a.) Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater..

Break :: Break (v. t.) To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock..

Fracture :: Fracture (n.) The breaking of a bone.

Smasher :: Smasher (n.) One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces..

Parbreak :: Parbreak (n.) Vomit.

Frush :: Frush (v. t.) To batter; to break in pieces.

Crumble :: Crumble (v. t.) To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces.

Disintegrate :: Disintegrate (v. t.) To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences..

Break :: Break (v. t.) An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current..

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..

Diffract :: Diffract (v. t.) To break or separate into parts; to deflect, or decompose by deflection, a/ rays of light..

Break :: Break (n.) See Commutator.

Fission :: Fission (n.) A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts..

Guard :: Guard (v. t.) An interleaved strip at the back, as in a scrap book, to guard against its breaking when filled..

Wind-break :: Wind-break (v. t.) To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.

Tumbleweed :: Tumbleweed (n.) Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc..

Jimmy :: Jimmy (n.) A short crowbar used by burglars in breaking open doors.

Heartbreaking :: Heartbreaking (a.) Causing overpowering sorrow.