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(verb) weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "For a hero loves the world till it breaks him"--Yeats |
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Related Words: weaken |
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(noun) an escape from jail; "the breakout was carefully planned" |
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Synonyms: breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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Related Words: escape, flight |
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(verb) diminish or discontinue abruptly; "The patient's fever broke last night" |
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Related Words: decrease, diminish, fall, lessen |
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(verb) fall sharply; "stock prices broke" |
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Related Words: decrease, diminish, fall, lessen |
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(verb) be broken in; "If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress" |
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Related Words: change |
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(verb) of the male voice in puberty; "his voice is breaking--he should no longer sing in the choir" |
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Related Words: change state, turn |
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(verb) render inoperable or ineffective; "You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!" |
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Related Words: damage |
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(noun) a sudden dash; "he made a break for the open door" |
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Related Words: dash, fastbreak, sprint |
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(verb) become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" |
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Synonyms: come apart, fall apart, separate, split up |
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Related Words: break open, break up, burst, bust, change integrity, crack, crush, fragment, fragmentize, ladder, puncture, run, snap, split |
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(verb) destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments; "He broke the glass plate"; "She broke the match" |
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Related Words: break in, dash, divide, fracture, separate, shatter, smash |
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(verb) happen, as of an event; "Report the news as it develops" |
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Synonyms: develop |
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Related Words: come about, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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(noun) an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks" |
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Synonyms: disruption, gap, interruption |
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Related Words: abruption, barracking, breaking off, delay, detention, heckling, holdup, interjection, interpolation, interposition |
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(verb) prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break the silence" |
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Synonyms: break off, discontinue, stop |
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Related Words: bog, bog down, break up, cut off, disrupt, end, fracture, interrupt, leave off, terminate |
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(verb) stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!"; "We broke at noon" |
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Synonyms: hold on, stop |
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Related Words: break, interrupt |
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(noun) (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving; "he was up two breaks in the second set" |
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Synonyms: break of serve |
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Related Words: score |
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(noun) the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool |
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Related Words: shot, stroke |
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(verb) change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another; "Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children" |
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Related Words: change, shift, switch |
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(verb) come into being; "light broke over the horizon"; "Voices broke in the air" |
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Related Words: become, get, go |
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(verb) find the solution or key to; "break the code" |
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Related Words: figure out, lick, puzzle out, solve, work |
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(verb) find a flaw in: "break an alibi" |
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Related Words: destroy, ruin |
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(verb) undergo breaking; "The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages" |
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Related Words: diphthongize |
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(verb) interrupt the flow of current in; "break a circuit" |
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Related Words: break up, cut off, disrupt, interrupt |
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(verb) be released or become known; of news; "News of her death broke in the morning" |
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Synonyms: get around, get out |
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Related Words: leak, leak out |
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(verb) pierce or penetrate; "The blade broke her skin" |
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Related Words: penetrate |
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(verb) become punctured or penetrated: "The skin broke" |
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(verb) pierce the surface of; "The fish broke the water" |
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Related Words: pierce |
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(verb) break a piece from a whole; "break a branch from a tree" |
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Synonyms: break off, snap off |
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Related Words: detach |
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(verb) go to pieces; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely" |
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Synonyms: bust, fall apart, wear, wear out |
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Related Words: crumble, decay, delapidate, fray, frazzle |
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(verb) ruin completely; "He busted my radio!" |
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Synonyms: bust |
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Related Words: break down, destroy, ruin |
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Antonyms: repair |
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(verb) separate from a clinch, in boxing; "The referee broke the boxers" |
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Related Words: disunite, divide, part, separate |
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(verb) make the opening shot that scatters the balls, in billiards or pool |
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Related Words: shoot |
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(verb) destroy the completeness of a set of related items; "The book dealer would not break the set" |
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Synonyms: break up |
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Related Words: alter, change |
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(verb) exchange for smaller units of money; "I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy" |
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Related Words: change, commute, convert, exchange |
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(verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up; "break into tears"; "erupt in anger" |
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Synonyms: burst, erupt |
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Related Words: express emotion, express feelings |
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(verb) curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves; "The surf broke" |
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Related Words: break, cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give, give way |
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(verb) emerge from the surface, as of fish in water; "The whales broke" |
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Related Words: appear |
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(verb) scatter or part; "The clouds broke after the heavy downpour" |
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Related Words: disperse, dissipate, scatter, spread out |
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(verb) make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing (military usage); "The ranks broke" |
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Related Words: flee, fly, take flight |
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(verb) move away or escape suddenly; "The horses broke from the stable"; "Three inmates broke jail" |
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Synonyms: break away, break out |
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Related Words: break loose, escape, get away |
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(verb) change directions suddenly |
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Related Words: change, shift, switch |
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(verb) divide into pieces, as by bending or cutting; "break the loaf of bread"; "break the crackers" |
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Related Words: carve up, dissever, divide, separate, split, split up |
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(verb) stop or interrupt; "He broke the engagement"; "We had to break our plans for a trip to China" |
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Related Words: call off, cancel |
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(verb) invalidate by judicial action; "The will was broken" |
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Related Words: annul, avoid, invalidate, nullify, quash, void |
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(verb) interrupt a continued activity; "She had broken with the traditional patterns" |
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Synonyms: break away |
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Related Words: break, break up, part, separate, split, split up |
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(verb) cause the failure or ruin of; "His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage"; "This play will either make or break the playwright" |
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Related Words: ruin |
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Antonyms: make |
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(verb) happen or take place; "Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months" (informal) |
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Related Words: come about, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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(verb) come forth or begin from a state of latency; "The first winter storm broke over New York" |
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Related Words: come forth, emerge |
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(verb) give up: "break cigarette smoking" |
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Related Words: cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, quit, stop |
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(verb) cause to give up a habit; "She finally broke herself of smoking cigarettes" |
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(verb) vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity; "The flat plain was broken by sharply mesas" |
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Related Words: alter, change, vary |
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(verb) come to an end; "The heat wave finally broke yesterday" |
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Related Words: cease, end, finish, terminate |
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(noun) an unexpected piece of good luck; "he finally got his big break" |
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Synonyms: good luck, happy chance |
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Related Words: accident, chance event, fortuity |
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(noun) the occurrence of breaking; "the break in the dam threatened the valley" |
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Related Words: breakup, detachment, separation |
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(verb) fracture a bone of: "I broke my foot while playing hockey" |
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Synonyms: fracture |
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(noun) any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare; "the break in the eighth frame cost him the match" |
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Synonyms: open frame |
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Related Words: score |
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(verb) make submissive, obedient, or useful, as of wild animals or new items: "The horse was tough to break"; used metaphorically for people |
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Synonyms: break in |
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Related Words: chasten, subdue, tame |
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(noun) the act of breaking something; "the breakage was unavoidable" |
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Synonyms: breakage, breaking |
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Related Words: change of integrity, chip, chipping, crack, cracking, fracture, rupture, shattering, smashing, splintering |
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(verb) end prematurely; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak" |
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Synonyms: interrupt |
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Related Words: break, break off, break short, cut short, end, freeze, hold on, stop, suspend, terminate |
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(verb) surpass in excellence; "She bettered her own record"; "break a record" |
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Synonyms: better |
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Related Words: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outstrip, surmount, surpass |
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(verb) enter someone's property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act; "Someone broke in while I was on vacation"; "They broke into my car and stole my radio!" |
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Synonyms: break in |
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Related Words: intrude, trespass |
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(noun) some occurrence that interrupts; "the telephone is an annoying interruption"; "there was a break in the action when a player was hurt" |
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Synonyms: abrupt change, interruption |
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Related Words: abatement, dislocation, disruption, eclipse, happening, hiatus, natural event, occurrence, reprieve, respite, suspension |
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(noun) breaking of hard tissue such as bone; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall" |
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Synonyms: fracture |
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Related Words: closed fracture, comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, compression fracture, depressed fracture, displaced fracture, fatigue fracture, harm, hurt, impacted fracture, incomplete fracture, injury, open fracture, simple fracture, stress fracture, trauma |
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(verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated" |
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Synonyms: check, crack |
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Related Words: change, crack |
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(verb) cease an action temporarily; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch" |
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Synonyms: intermit, pause |
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Related Words: break up, breathe, catch one's breath, cut off, disrupt, interrupt, rest, take a breather, take five, take ten |
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(noun) a pause from doing something (as work); "we took a 10-minute break"; "he took time out to recuperate" |
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Synonyms: recess, respite, time out |
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Related Words: pause |
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(verb) do a break dance; "Kids were break-dancing at the street corner" |
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Synonyms: break dance, break-dance |
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Related Words: dance, trip the light fantastic |
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(verb) reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!" |
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Synonyms: bankrupt, ruin |
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Related Words: impoverish |
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(verb) fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns; "He violated the agreement to stay away from his ex-wife"; "You are breaking the law!" |
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Synonyms: go against, violate |
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(noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations" |
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Synonyms: breach, falling out, rift, rupture, severance |
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Related Words: breakup, detachment, separation |
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(noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something |
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Synonyms: intermission, interruption, pause, suspension |
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Related Words: blackout, caesura, delay, halftime, hold, interval, lapse, letup, lull, postponement, relief, respite, rest, rest period, time interval, time lag, time-out, wait |
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(verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up" |
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Synonyms: bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate |
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Related Words: assign, delegate, depute, designate, reduce |
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(verb) lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall" |
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Synonyms: damp, dampen, soften, weaken |
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Related Words: blunt, deaden, deafen |
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(verb) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up" |
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Synonyms: break up, part, separate, split, split up |
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Related Words: break, break apart, break away, break with, disjoint, dissassociate, dissociate, disunify, disunite, divorce, secede, splinter, split up |
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(noun) (geology) a fracture in the earth's crust with displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right on the San Andreas fault" |
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Synonyms: fault, fault line, fracture, geological fault |
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Related Words: San Andreas Fault, cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, inclined fault, scissure |
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(verb) break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice" |
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Synonyms: cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give, give way |
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Related Words: break, buckle, change, crumple, flop, go off, implode, sink, slide down, slump |
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(verb) stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffe maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town" |
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Synonyms: break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go |
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Related Words: blow, blow out, burn out, change, crash, go down, malfunction, misfire, misfunction |
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(verb) act in disregard of laws and rules; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law" |
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Synonyms: breach, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate |
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Related Words: blunder, boob, conflict, contravene, disrespect, goof, infringe, intrude, run afoul, sin, trespass |
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(verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The aution house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her" |
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Synonyms: bring out, declare, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, impart, let on, let out, reveal |
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Related Words: babble, babble out, betray, bewray, blab, blab out, blackwash, blow, come out, come out of the closet, confide, leak, out, peach, sing, spring, talk, tattle, tell |
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