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Shive :: Shive (n.) A thin piece or fragment; specifically, one of the scales or pieces of the woody part of flax removed by the operation of breaking..

Wash :: Wash (n.) The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it..

Break :: Break (v. i.) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking..

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..

Breach :: Breach (v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale..

Attenuate :: Attenuate (v. t.) To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts..

Breach :: Breach (n.) The act of breaking, in a figurative sense..

Caesura :: Caesura (n.) A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the caesural accent rests, or which is used as a foot..

Undertow :: Undertow (n.) The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are breaking upon the shore.

Refracture :: Refracture (n.) A second breaking (as of a badly set bone) by the surgeon.

Spermospore :: Spermospore (n.) The male germinal or seminal cell, from the breaking up of which the spermoblasts are formed and ultimately the spermatozoids; a spermatospore..

Crashing :: Crashing (n.) The noise of many things falling and breaking at once.

Dash :: Dash (v. t.) To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin..

Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (n.) The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves..

Tiffin :: Tiffin (n.) A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; -- originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a special sense..

Break :: Break (v. t.) To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods..

Breakdown :: Breakdown (n.) Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time..

Knap :: Knap (v. t.) To bite; to bite off; to break short.

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..

Pause :: Pause (n.) A break or paragraph in writing.

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