Definition of break

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Break (v. t.) To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments.

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Nutbreaker :: Nutbreaker (n.) The European nuthatch.
Breaker :: Breaker (n.) A small water cask.
Crumb :: Crumb (v. t.) To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread..
Flash :: Flash (v. i.) To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.
Cavezon :: Cavezon (n.) A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses.
Breakdown :: Breakdown (n.) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down..
Dissolve :: Dissolve (v. t.) To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament..
Strong :: Strong (superl.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) by a variation in the root vowel, and the past participle (usually) by the addition of -en (with or without a change of the root vowel); as in the verbs strive, strove, striven; break, broke, broken; drink, drank, drunk. Opposed to weak, or regular. See Weak..
Infract :: Infract (v. t.) To break; to infringe.
Feldspath :: Feldspath (n.) A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish..
Tumbleweed :: Tumbleweed (n.) Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc..
Faller :: Faller (n.) A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks..
Squeak :: Squeak (v. i.) To break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or punishment; to speak; to confess.
Iconoclastic :: Iconoclastic (a.) Of or pertaining to the iconoclasts, or to image breaking..
Giving :: Giving (n.) The act of softening, breaking, or yielding..
Ripple :: Ripple (v. i.) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore..
Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (n.) The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves..
Boutade :: Boutade (n.) An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.
Attenuate :: Attenuate (v. t.) To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts..
Harrow :: Harrow (n.) To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land..
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