Definition of break

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Break (v. i.) To fall in business; to become bankrupt.

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Hiatus :: Hiatus (n.) An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break..
Poach :: Poach (v. & n.) To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel..
Crack :: Crack (v. i.) To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts..
Pounding :: Pounding (n.) The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating..
Shatter :: Shatter (v. t.) To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning..
To-brest :: To-brest (v. t.) To burst or break in pieces.
Unman :: Unman (v. t.) To deprive of the courage and fortitude of a man; to break or subdue the manly spirit in; to cause to despond; to dishearten; to make womanish.
Nicker :: Nicker (v. t.) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence.
Breaker :: Breaker (n.) Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed..
Erumpent :: Erumpent (a.) Breaking out; -- said of certain fungi which burst through the texture of leaves.
Chipping :: Chipping (n.) The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc..
Trachyte :: Trachyte (n.) An igneous rock, usually light gray in color and breaking with a rough surface. It consists chiefly of orthoclase feldspar with sometimes hornblende and mica..
Hanch :: Hanch () A sudden fall or break, as the fall of the fife rail down to the gangway..
Break :: Break (v. t.) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate..
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..
Interruptedly :: Interruptedly (adv.) With breaks or interruptions; discontinuously.
Breach :: Breach (n.) A breaking out upon; an assault.
Indican :: Indican (n.) A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and other plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup. It has a nauseous bitter taste, a decomposes or drying. By the action of acids, ferments, etc., it breaks down into sugar and indigo. It is the source of natural indigo..
Apostrophe :: Apostrophe (n.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of Paradise Lost..
Breakable :: Breakable (a.) Capable of being broken.
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