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to vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity |
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an escape from jail |
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any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare |
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a sudden dash |
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the act of breaking something, making it unusable |
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an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity |
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in tennis, a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving |
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the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool |
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break |
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a pause from doing something (as work) |
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an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice as at puberty or due to emotion |
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a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) |
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an unexpected piece of good luck |
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the occurrence of breaking |
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some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity |
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(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other |
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breaking of hard tissue such as bone |
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a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something |
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to weaken or destroy in spirit or body |
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to fracture a bone of |
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break |
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to make submissive, obedient, or useful |
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break |
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to be broken in |
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break |
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to crack something |
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break |
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to become separated into pieces or fragments |
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to destroy the integrity of |
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to lessen in force or effect |
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to stop operating or functioning |
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to change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another |
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break |
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to find the solution or key to |
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to find a flaw in |
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to interrupt the flow of current in |
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to cease an action temporarily |
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break |
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to be released or become known |
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to pierce or penetrate |
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to become punctured or penetrated |
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to break a piece from a whole |
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to go to pieces |
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to ruin completely |
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to separate from a clinch, in boxing |
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to make the opening shot that scatters the balls |
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to destroy the completeness of a set of related items |
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break |
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to exchange for smaller units of money |
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break |
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to force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up |
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break |
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to do a break dance |
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to curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves |
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to break down, literally or metaphorically |
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to emerge from the surface of a body of water |
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break |
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to scatter or part |
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to make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing |
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to move away or escape suddenly |
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to change directions suddenly |