Definition of break

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Break (v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10..

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Chip :: Chip (v. t.) To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery..
Decamp :: Decamp (v. i.) To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly..
Break :: Break (v. t.) To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set..
Parting :: Parting (n.) The breaking, as of a cable, by violence..
Pounding :: Pounding (n.) The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating..
Divide :: Divide (v. i.) To break friendship; to fall out.
Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.
Spalt :: Spalt (a.) Liable to break or split; brittle; as, spalt timber..
Breaking :: Breaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brea.
Breakman :: Breakman (n.) See Brakeman.
Cob :: Cob (v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions..
Destroy :: Destroy (v. t.) To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.
Eccoriate :: Eccoriate (v. t.) To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances..
Broach :: Broach (n.) To cause to begin or break out.
Event :: Event (v. t.) To break forth.
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..
Disjoint :: Disjoint (v. t.) To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech..
Interruption :: Interruption (n.) The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition..
Crack :: Crack (v. i.) To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts..
Shell :: Shell (v. t.) To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters..
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