means | (noun) some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity; "the telephone is an annoying interruption"; "there was a break in the action when a player was hurt" break, interruption |
means | (noun) an unexpected piece of good luck; "he finally got his big break" good luck, break, happy chance |
means | (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust" fracture, fault, break, shift, faulting, geological fault |
means | (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations" rift, break, falling out, breach, rupture, severance |
means | (noun) a pause from doing something (as work); "we took a 10-minute break"; "he took time out to recuperate" respite, recess, time out, break |
means | (noun) the act of breaking something; "the breakage was unavoidable" break, breaking, breakage |
means | (noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something break, pause, intermission, suspension, interruption |
means | (noun) breaking of hard tissue such as bone; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall" fracture, break |
means | (noun) the occurrence of breaking; "the break in the dam threatened the valley" break |
means | (noun) an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion); "then there was a break in her voice" break |
means | (noun) the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool break |
means | (noun) (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving; "he was up two breaks in the second set" break of serve, break |
means | (noun) an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account" disruption, gap, break, interruption |
means | (noun) a sudden dash; "he made a break for the open door" break |
means | (noun) any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare; "the break in the eighth frame cost him the match" open frame, break |
means | (noun) an escape from jail; "the breakout was carefully planned" break, breakout, jailbreak, prisonbreak, prison-breaking, gaolbreak |
means | (verb) terminate; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty" interrupt, break |
means | (verb) become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" split up, fall apart, break, come apart, separate |
means | (verb) render inoperable or ineffective; "You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!" break |
means | (verb) ruin completely; "He busted my radio!" bust, break |
means | (verb) destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments; "He broke the glass plate"; "She broke the match" break |
means | (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise" offend, go against, violate, breach, infract, break, transgress |
means | (verb) move away or escape suddenly; "The horses broke from the stable"; "Three inmates broke jail"; "Nobody can break out--this prison is high security" break out, break, break away |
means | (verb) scatter or part; "The clouds broke after the heavy downpour" break |
means | (verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up; "break into tears"; "erupt in anger" burst, break, erupt |
means | (verb) prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations" break, stop, break off, discontinue |
means | (verb) enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act; "Someone broke in while I was on vacation"; "They broke into my car and stole my radio!"; "who broke into my account last night?" break, break in |
means | (verb) make submissive, obedient, or useful; "The horse was tough to break"; "I broke in the new intern" break, break in |
means | (verb) fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns; "This sentence violates the rules of syntax" violate, go against, break |
means | (verb) surpass in excellence; "She bettered her own record"; "break a record" break, better |
means | (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case" divulge, let out, bring out, disclose, let on, discover, expose, reveal, give away, unwrap, break |
means | (verb) come into being; "light broke over the horizon"; "Voices broke in the air" break |
means | (verb) stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident" fail, give out, break, go bad, conk out, die, go, give way, break down |
means | (verb) interrupt a continued activity; "She had broken with the traditional patterns" break away, break |
means | (verb) make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing; "The ranks broke" break |
means | (verb) curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves; "The surf broke" break |
means | (verb) lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall" break, damp, soften, weaken, dampen |
means | (verb) be broken in; "If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress" break |
means | (verb) come to an end; "The heat wave finally broke yesterday" break |
means | (verb) vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity; "The flat plain was broken by tall mesas" break |
means | (verb) cause to give up a habit; "She finally broke herself of smoking cigarettes" break |
means | (verb) give up; "break cigarette smoking" break |
means | (verb) come forth or begin from a state of latency; "The first winter storm broke over New York" break |
means | (verb) happen or take place; "Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months" break |
means | (verb) cause the failure or ruin of; "His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage"; "This play will either make or break the playwright" break |
means | (verb) invalidate by judicial action; "The will was broken" break |
means | (verb) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up" split, break up, part, split up, separate, break |
means | (verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant" relegate, break, bump, demote, kick downstairs |
means | (verb) reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him" break, ruin, bankrupt, smash |
means | (verb) change directions suddenly break |
means | (verb) emerge from the surface of a body of water; "The whales broke" break |
means | (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice" give, break, founder, fall in, collapse, cave in, give way |
means | (verb) do a break dance; "Kids were break-dancing at the street corner" break, break-dance, break dance |
means | (verb) exchange for smaller units of money; "I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy" break |
means | (verb) destroy the completeness of a set of related items; "The book dealer would not break the set" break, break up |
means | (verb) make the opening shot that scatters the balls break |
means | (verb) separate from a clinch, in boxing; "The referee broke the boxers" break |
means | (verb) go to pieces; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely" wear, wear out, break, fall apart, bust |
means | (verb) break a piece from a whole; "break a branch from a tree" snap off, break, break off |
means | (verb) become punctured or penetrated; "The skin broke" break |
means | (verb) pierce or penetrate; "The blade broke her skin" break |
means | (verb) be released or become known; of news; "News of her death broke in the morning" break, get around, get out |
means | (verb) cease an action temporarily; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch" intermit, break, pause |
means | (verb) interrupt the flow of current in; "break a circuit" break |
means | (verb) undergo breaking; "The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages" break |
means | (verb) find a flaw in; "break an alibi"; "break down a proof" break |
means | (verb) find the solution or key to; "break the code" break |
means | (verb) change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another; "Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children" break |
means | (verb) happen; "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time" recrudesce, break, develop |
means | (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated" break, crack, check |
means | (verb) crack; of the male voice in puberty; "his voice is breaking--he should no longer sing in the choir" break |
means | (verb) fall sharply; "stock prices broke" break |
means | (verb) fracture a bone of; "I broke my foot while playing hockey" fracture, break |
means | (verb) diminish or discontinue abruptly; "The patient's fever broke last night" break |
means | (verb) weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death" break |
means | e/Break (music) |