break

Definitions

• (transitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
• (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• (transitive) To ruin financially.
• (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• (intransitive) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, in terms of temperature.
• (intransitive) To end.
• (intransitive) To begin; to end.
• (intransitive) To arrive.
• (transitive) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
• (transitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• (intransitive) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water. storm at Pors-Loubous.196A wave breaking.
• (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
• (transitive) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• (intransitive) To become audible suddenly.
• (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• (copulative) To suddenly become.
• (intransitive) Of a male voice, to become deeper at puberty.
• (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down; to crack.
• (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
• (sports):
• (transitive) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• (intransitive) To demulsify.
• (intransitive) To counter-attack
• (transitive) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• (intransitive) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• (intransitive) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
• (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.