Definition of break

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Break (v. i.) To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty..

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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.
Escapade :: Escapade (n.) Act by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank.
Disunite :: Disunite (v. t.) To alienate in spirit; to break the concord of.
Flexible :: Flexible (a.) Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle..
Enrockment :: Enrockment (n.) A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc..
Break :: Break (v. t.) An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc..
Rout :: Rout (v. t.) To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout..
Spall :: Spall (v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of separating from rock..
Divide :: Divide (v. i.) To break friendship; to fall out.
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..
Break :: Break (v. t.) To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments.
Breakdown :: Breakdown (n.) The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall..
Martel De Fer :: Martel de fer () A weapon resembling a hammer, often having one side of the head pointed; -- used by horsemen in the Middle Ages to break armor..
Resolution :: Resolution (n.) A breaking up, disappearance; or termination, as of a fever, a tumor, or the like..
Ragguled :: Ragguled (a.) Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge..
Part :: Part (v. i.) To be broken or divided into parts or pieces; to break; to become separated; to go asunder; as, rope parts; his hair parts in the middle..
Contuse :: Contuse (v. t.) To bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin.
Breakneck :: Breakneck (a.) Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed..
Perbreak :: Perbreak (n.) See Parbreak.
Breach :: Breach (n.) A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
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