Break

Verb

 * 1)  To end up in two or more pieces that cannot easily be reassembled.
 * If the vase falls to the floor, it might break.
 * 1)  To cause to end up in two or more pieces that cannot easily be reassembled.
 * She broke the vase.
 * 1)  To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
 * ''Can you break a hundred-dollar bill for me?
 * The wholesaler broke the container loads into palettes and boxes for local retailers.
 * 1)  Of a bone, to crack or fracture due to a physical strain, such as a collision.
 * His ribs broke under the weight of the rocks piled on his chest.
 * 1)  To cause, accidentally or intentionally, (a bone) to crack under physical strain.
 * She broke his neck.
 * He slipped on the ice and broke his leg.
 * 1)  To cause (a person) to lose his spirit or will; to crush the spirits of; to ruin (a person) emotionally.
 * Her child's death broke her.
 * Interrogators have used many forms of torture to break prisoners of war.
 * 1) To cause an animal to lose its will, to tame.
 * You have to break an elephant before you can use it as an animal of burden.
 * 1) To cause (a habit) to no longer exist.
 * I've got to break this habit I have of biting my nails.
 * 1) To ruin financially.
 * The recession broke some small businesses.
 * 1)  To do that which is forbidden by (a rule or rules).
 * When you go to Vancouver, promise me you won't break the law.
 * He broke his vows by cheating on his wife.
 * break one's word
 * 1)  To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in a player's favor.
 * Letting white have three extra queens would break chess.
 * 1)  To stop functioning properly or altogether.
 * On the hottest day of the year the refrigerator broke.
 * 1)  To cause to stop functioning properly or altogether.
 * Did you two break the trolley by racing with it?
 * 1)  To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
 * Adding 64-bit support broke backward compatibility with earlier versions.
 * 1)  To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
 * break a seal
 * 1)  To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
 * 2)  To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
 * 3)  To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
 * 4)  to end
 * The forecast says the hot weather will break by midweek
 * 1)  To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
 * Let's break for lunch.
 * 1)  To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object not hit something else beneath.
 * He survived the jump out the window because the bushes below broke his fall.
 * 1)  To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
 * The newsman wanted to break a big story, something that would make him famous.
 * I don't know how to break this to you, but your cat is not coming back.
 * 1)  To arrive.
 * Morning has broken.
 * 1)  To become audible suddenly.
 * 2)  To change a steady state abruptly.
 * His coughing broke the silence.
 * His turning on the lights broke the enchantment.
 * With the mood broken, what we had been doing seemed pretty silly.
 * 1)  Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down; to crack.
 * His voice breaks (or cracks) when he gets emotional.
 * 1)  To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (an record), setting a new record.
 * He broke the mens' 100-meter record.
 * I can't believe she broke 3 under par!
 * The policeman broke sixty on a residential street in his hurry to catch the thief.
 * 1)  To win a game as receiver.
 * He needs to break serve to win the match.
 * 1)  To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
 * Is it your or my turn to break?
 * 1)  To remove one of the two men on (a point).
 * 2)  To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
 * 3)  To end (a connection), to disconnect.
 * The referee ordered the boxers to break the clinch.
 * The referee broke the boxers' clinch.
 * I couldn't hear a thing he was saying, so I broke the connection and called him back.
 * 1)   To arrange a temporary split (with a romantic partner).
 * 2)  To demulsify.
 * 1)  To demulsify.

Noun

 * 1) An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
 * The femur has a clean break and so should heal easily.
 * 1) A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
 * The sun came out in a break in the clouds.
 * He waited minutes for a break in the traffic to cross the highway.
 * 1)  A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
 * The fiddle break was amazing, it was a pity the singer came back in on the wrong note.
 * 1) A rest or pause, usually from work; a breaktime.
 * Let’s take a five-minute break.
 * 1) A temporary split (with a romantic partner).
 * I think we need a break.
 * 1) An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
 * 2) A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention: big break, lucky break.
 * 3)  a change; the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather
 * 4) The beginning (of the morning).
 * daybreak
 * at the break of day
 * 1) An act of escaping.
 * 2)  A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).

Synonyms for Break

 * burst, bust, shatter, shear, smash, split
 * bust, shatter, shear, smash, split
 * crack, fracture
 * crack, fracture
 * subject, tame
 * contravene, go against, violate
 * break down, bust, fail, go down
 * split
 * breach, gap, space
 * time out
 * sever, shiver, crush, rend, rive, rupture, demolish, destroy, tear, batter, subdue, curb, infringe, separate.

Antonyms for Break

 * assemble, fix, join, mend, put together, repair, unite.
 * hold