Definition of break

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

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Breakneck :: Breakneck (n.) A steep place endangering the neck.
Cob :: Cob (v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions..
Dejeuner :: Dejeuner (n.) A breakfast; sometimes, also, a lunch or collation..
Dengue :: Dengue (n.) A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal..
Dissolve :: Dissolve (v. t.) To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament..
Decamp :: Decamp (v. i.) To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly..
Keratonyxis :: Keratonyxis (n.) The operation of removing a cataract by thrusting a needle through the cornea of the eye, and breaking up the opaque mass..
Iconoclast :: Iconoclast (n.) A breaker or destroyer of images or idols; a determined enemy of idol worship.
Denutrition :: Denutrition (n.) The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.
Pestle :: Pestle (n.) An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.
Fracture :: Fracture (n.) The breaking of a bone.
Pound-breach :: Pound-breach (n.) The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals.
Pound :: Pound (v. t.) To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt..
Incide :: Incide (v. t.) To cut; to separate and remove; to resolve or break up, as by medicines..
Haematoplastic :: Haematoplastic (a.) Blood formative; -- applied to a substance in early fetal life, which breaks up gradually into blood vessels..
Nutbreaker :: Nutbreaker (n.) The nutcracker.
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..
Upburst :: Upburst (n.) The act of bursting upwards; a breaking through to the surface; an upbreak or uprush; as, an upburst of molten matter..
Breaker :: Breaker (n.) One who, or that which, breaks..
Gall :: Gall (v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable..
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