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Main Entry:	break [breyk] Show IPA/breɪk/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	destroy; make whole into pieces
Synonyms:	annihilate, batter, burst, bust, bust up, crack, crash, crush, damage, demolish, disintegrate, divide, eradicate, finish off, fracture, fragment, make hash of, make mincemeat of, part, pull to pieces, rend, separate, sever, shatter, shiver, smash, snap, splinter, split, tear, torpedo, total, trash*
Notes:	to brake is to slow or stop while break is to cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently, smash or crack
Antonyms:	attach, fasten, fix, join, mend, put together, secure

* = informal/non-formal usage

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Main Entry:	break
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	weaken, cause instability
Synonyms:	bankrupt, bust, confound, confute, controvert, cow, cripple, declass, degrade, demerit, demoralize, demote, disconfirm, dispirit, disprove, downgrade, enervate, enfeeble, humiliate, impair, impoverish, incapacitate, pauperize, rebut, reduce, refute, ruin, subdue, tame, undermine
Antonyms:	stabilize, strengthen

Main Entry:	break
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	stop an action
Synonyms:	abandon, cut, discontinue, give up, interrupt, pause, rest, suspend
Antonyms:	allow, cause

Example Sentences

The university's governing board fired the president five days after the scandal broke.

In fact, the soldiers behaved decently when they broke into his house a few months later.

Two more fires broke out during later missions, though without casualties.

The university's governing board fired the president five days after the scandal broke.

In fact, the soldiers behaved decently when they broke into his house a few months later.

Two more fires broke out during later missions, though without casualties.

When he ran a current through it, the spring contracted and broke the circuit, so that the spring bounced up and down.

But as they broke open the boat's barrels and crates, they were astonished by the range of what.

Piñata breaks in timely fashion but blindfolded birthday boy/girl who broke it cannot pull blindfold off.

Screaming matches broke out routinely in the hallways.

Later, as a supervisor, he kept things running when buses broke down and drivers called in sick.

The state almost everywhere is big, inefficient and broke.

Because of the sulfur acid, one camera broke down-the acid damaged all the copper contacts.

Elon said their data said the first stage kind of belly flopped on the atmosphere and broke apart.

If one of them broke a string on his sandals, the other two would wait until the damage was repaired.

Then, as they moistened and broke down, they released their heat.

Famine set in, the social order broke down and looting was rampant.

We think the leaning over to get the paper put strain on the hip and it broke.

Party discipline broke down in his absence and leaks started.

Suddenly, a gun battle broke out on the street outside.

Helens's peak broke off into the largest terrestrial landslide in recorded history.

The one that broke was eaten, while the reigning champion would go on to his next match, until it too broke.

Basically, the student took that text and broke it up with nine citations and a few original phrases.

Even before the levees broke the schools were struggling, as the city was.

But the shuttle crew was not blown up, nor did they die when the shuttle broke apart.

But a new therapy finally broke through that barrier yesterday.

As the cell structure itself broke down, crystals formed in those spaces as well.

Protests broke out last week, as students began the fall semester at the university's sunny, wind-swept new campus.

Long-distance trains also broke down or were delayed all over the country.

Another time his rope broke and he fell to the ground, spattered with paint.

The thing that broke this story from mere rumor to fill-blown scandal was our modern, sliding scale of victimhood.

Nothing broke the silence except the buzzing of bees in the distance.

Spending money you do not have does not make this a civilized country it makes you broke.

In order to stand up that claim, the authors first show how the global monetary system broke down.

All of them eventually reached a maximum size, broke apart, and were shoved aside by the next feature.

What is called paleolithic includes groups of hominins that broke stone into useful tools.

But as the trees disappeared and people began to starve, warfare broke out among the tribes.

If a firm in the for-profit private sector tried to operate this way, they would be broke within a couple of years.

They broke into the reception area of the television.

He broke his radius and ulna then cut through the remaining skin and tendons, freeing himself and saving his life.

Hell if my house was big enough to house enough broke scientists i would.

He escaped by jumping out a second story window, but broke his ankle in the fall.

Though protesters broke a variety of laws, no one was arrested.

On a recent trip he had to change cars twice in a day when they broke down on rutted roads.

Hopefully the sheeple will get the message as those who don't are going to be in a world of hurt, broke.

When the independence struggle broke out he decided to join the air force.

He broke rules and changed the course of literature forever.

The computer broke the images into a number of so-called numerical descriptors.

People eat less fat, protein, cholesterol and total calories when they are broke.

It was after another angler caught a snakehead in the same pond and netted some babies that all hell broke loose.

Fighting between the two groups also broke out near the airport.

Compared with antibodies found in sheep, rabbits and mice, the natural ones typically broke down completely within five.

There was no pain and no symptoms, though the middle line in my left palm broke in two.

The tips flaked and broke off, drifting in microgravity where they could potentially harm an astronaut or equipment.

There have been many almost broke through the containment vessels over the yrs.

Main Entry:	break
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	tell news
Synonyms:	announce, come out, communicate, convey, disclose, divulge, impart, inform, let out, make public, pass on, proclaim, reveal, tell, transmit
Antonyms:	hide, keep quiet, secret

Main Entry:	break
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	better a performance
Synonyms:	beat, cap, exceed, excel, go beyond, outdo, outstrip, surpass, top

Main Entry:	break
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	emerge, happen
Synonyms:	appear, befall, betide, burst out, chance, come forth, come off, come to pass, develop, erupt, go, occur, transpire

Main Entry:	break
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	run away
Synonyms:	abscond, bust out, clear out, cut and run, dash, decamp, escape, flee, fly, get away, get out
Antonyms:	stay, wait

Main Entry:	break
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	cushion something's effect
Synonyms:	diminish, lessen, lighten, moderate, reduce, soften, weaken

Main Entry:	broke
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	without money
Synonyms:	bankrupt, beggared, bust, cleaned out, destitute, dirt poor, flat broke, impoverished, in Chapter 11, in debt, indebted, indigent, insolvent, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, ruined, stone broke, strapped, tapped out
Antonyms:	affluent, rich, solvent, wealthy

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