Definition of break

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Break (v. t.) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.

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Break :: Break (v. t.) An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship..
Bucking :: Bucking (n.) The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
Crase :: Crase (v. t.) To break in pieces; to crack.
Breach :: Breach (v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale..
Gneiss :: Gneiss (n.) A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic / syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss..
Break :: Break (v. t.) An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation..
Split :: Split (v. t.) To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite..
Escapade :: Escapade (n.) Act by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank.
Haggard :: Haggard (a.) Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk..
Infractor :: Infractor (n.) One who infracts or infringes; a violator; a breaker.
Sewel :: Sewel (n.) A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place..
Crashing :: Crashing (n.) The noise of many things falling and breaking at once.
Crash :: Crash (v. t. ) To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.
Chasm :: Chasm (n.) A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men..
Reveille :: Reveille (n.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging..
Peacebreaker :: Peacebreaker (n.) One who disturbs the public peace.
Taint :: Taint (n.) An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner..
Break :: Break (v. i.) To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag..
Disshiver :: Disshiver (v. t. & i.) To shiver or break in pieces.
Dissolution :: Dissolution (n.) The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership.
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