break

To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.

If the vase falls to the floor, it might break.

In order to tend to the accident victim, he will break the window of the car.

To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.

His ribs broke under the weight of the rocks piled on his chest.

He slipped on the ice and broke his leg.

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.

To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.

Her child’s death broke Angela.

Interrogators have used many forms of torture to break prisoners of war.

To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.

Colonel: See, gentlemen? Any horse could be broken.

You have to break an elephant before you can use it as an animal of burden.

An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.

The femur has a clean break and so should heal easily.

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.

An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.

Work commenced at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday and continued without break until 4 a.m. on Monday morning, in the course of which three shifts of upwards of 90 men each and three steam cranes were employed.

But the young activists of Move Forward outmanoeuvred the older party, and beat many of its candidates, with an imaginative, social media-based campaign offering voters a complete break with the past, and a different kind of political leadership.

A rest or pause, usually from work.

Let’s take a five-minute break.

A rest or pause, usually from work.

It was playtime - or rather ‘break’ - and I had brazenly joined in a game of football on the school parade ground.

A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.

The smooth criminal on beat breaks / Never put me in your box if your shit eats tapes