break the cycle
To act so as to end a repeating pattern of harmful or otherwise negative behavior.
cycle
UK /ˈsaɪ.kəl/ US /ˈsaɪ.kəl/
noun 7verb 4
Definitions
noun
1
An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
the cycle of the seasons, or of the year
VVages have been tvvice raiſed in my time, and they bear a full proportion, or even a greater than formerly, to the medium of proviſion during the laſt bad cycle of tvventy years.
2
A complete rotation of anything.
3
A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
electoral cycle menstrual cycle news cycle
No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.
4
The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
5
A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.
The Ring of the Nibelung is a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner.
verb
1
To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
When my wife and I heard a plaintive whinny from our laundry room the other day, we knew that our old dryer had cycled its last load.
2
To turn power off and back on
Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
3
To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal
They have their cycling game going tonight.
noun
1
A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
2
A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
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