Sekirov Dictionary

break

/bɹeɪk/

verb72

  1. to split or crack into pieces that cannot easily be put back together
  2. To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
  3. To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
  4. To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
  5. (slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
  6. To violate a contract or end the applicability of a will.
  7. To violate; to fail to adhere to.
  8. To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
  9. To end (a connection); to disconnect.
  10. To end the continuity or consistency of something.
  11. To change a steady state abruptly.
  12. To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something or by being place such that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
  13. To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
  14. To do better than a specified value.
  15. To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
  16. To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
  17. To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
  18. To arrive.
  19. To begin or end.
  20. To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
  21. To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
  22. To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar; to rupture; to render a barrier ineffective.
  23. To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
  24. To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
  25. To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
  26. (old-fashioned) To escape.
  27. To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
  28. To solve a code or case.
  29. To ruin financially; to harm.
  30. To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
  31. To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
  32. To use a high-value denomination of currency, thus necessitating being given change in smaller denominations.
  33. To make by forcing one's way through.
  34. To force one's way through.
  35. To end a fever.
  36. To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
  37. To successfully treat or resist (a fever).
  38. To end.
  39. To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
  40. To become deeper at puberty.
  41. To change the orderliness or compactness of an arrangement.
  42. To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
  43. To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
  44. To end (something) as a meaningful force.
  45. To disrupt the surface of and turn over the body of a substance.
  46. To disrupt a surface.
  47. (informal) To suddenly become.
  48. To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
  49. To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
  50. To counter-attack.
  51. To prove a falsity.
  52. To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
  53. To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
  54. To lose a texture.
  55. To de-emulsify.
  56. To become overwhipped and thus lose its texture.
  57. (slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
  58. To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
  59. To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
  60. To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
  61. To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
  62. To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
  63. Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
  64. To become audible suddenly.
    • c. — 1843
  65. To get past defenders, resulting in a specified run.
  66. To end the run of (a play).
  67. (rare) To brake.
  68. To open a break-action breechloader.
  69. To remove one of the two men on (a point).
  70. (no longer used) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
  71. (no longer used) To fail in business; to go broke, to become bankrupt.
  72. (no longer used) To fall out; to terminate friendship.

noun34

  1. An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
  2. A rest or pause, usually from work.
  3. (UK) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
  4. A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
  5. A short holiday.
  6. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
  7. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
    • them's the breaks
  8. A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
  9. (UK) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
  10. An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
  11. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
  12. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
  13. The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
  14. An act of escaping.
  15. The beginning (of the morning).
  16. The start of a horse race.
  17. A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
  18. A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
  19. The counter-attack.
  20. The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
  21. A game won by the receiving player(s).
  22. A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
  23. Ellipsis of breakpoint.
  24. A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
  25. A crease or fold arising where the pants leg reaches the shoe.
  26. The first shot in a game of billiards.
  27. The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
  28. The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
  29. The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
  30. [in the plural] An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
  31. The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
  32. A sharp bit or snaffle.
  33. (old-fashioned) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.
  34. (slang, no longer used) An error.
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breaked · breaked · brake · broke · brakest · brokest · broken · ybroke · ybroken · breaking · breaketh · breaks · breakest

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