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Stretch :: Stretch (v. i.) To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances..

Drawlatch :: Drawlatch (n.) A housebreaker or thief.

Luddite :: Luddite (n.) One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames..

Interruption :: Interruption (n.) The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition..

Divide :: Divide (v. i.) To break friendship; to fall out.

Pound-breach :: Pound-breach (n.) The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals.

Tewtaw :: Tewtaw (v. t.) To beat; to break, as flax or hemp..

Discuss :: Discuss (v. t.) To break to pieces; to shatter.

Burst :: Burst (v. i.) To exert force or pressure by which something is made suddenly to give way; to break through obstacles or limitations; hence, to appear suddenly and unexpectedly or unaccountably, or to depart in such manner; -- usually with some qualifying adverb or preposition, as forth, out, away, into, upon, through, etc..

Subdue :: Subdue (v. t.) To make mellow; to break, as land; also, to destroy, as weeds..

Fritter :: Fritter (v. t.) To break into small pieces or fragments.

Hackle :: Hackle (v. t.) To tear asunder; to break in pieces.

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..

Infringe :: Infringe (v. t.) To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract..

Break :: Break (v. t.) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate..

Stramash :: Stramash (v. t.) To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy..

Bolt :: Bolt (v. i.) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.

Interrupt :: Interrupt (v. t.) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill..

Storm :: Storm (n.) A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak; clamor; tumult..

Dismember :: Dismember (v. t.) To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.

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