Definition of break

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Break (v. t.) An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation..

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Petard :: Petard (n.) A case containing powder to be exploded, esp. a conical or cylindrical case of metal filled with powder and attached to a plank, to be exploded against and break down gates, barricades, drawbridges, etc. It has been superseded..
Break :: Break (v. t.) An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current..
Break :: Break (v. t.) To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods..
Cobwork :: Cobwork (a.) Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater..
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..
Faller :: Faller (n.) A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks..
Upbreak :: Upbreak (v. i.) To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.
Saxifragant :: Saxifragant (a.) Breaking or destroying stones; saxifragous.
Bond :: Bond (n.) The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break jo
Discussion :: Discussion (n.) The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like..
Craze :: Craze (v. t.) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.
Smash :: Smash (v. t.) To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.
Muffin :: Muffin (n.) A light, spongy, cylindrical cake, used for breakfast and tea..
Gnide :: Gnide (v. t.) To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces.
Bruise :: Bruise (v. t.) To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush..
Break :: Break (v. t.) To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin.
Snap :: Snap (v. t.) A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.
Strong :: Strong (superl.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) by a variation in the root vowel, and the past participle (usually) by the addition of -en (with or without a change of the root vowel); as in the verbs strive, strove, striven; break, broke, broken; drink, drank, drunk. Opposed to weak, or regular. See Weak..
Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores..
Incide :: Incide (v. t.) To cut; to separate and remove; to resolve or break up, as by medicines..
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