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A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies.
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(obsolete, transitive) To tear up by the roots; to draw away.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To break to pieces; break completely; shatter; destroy.
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(transitive) To rend or tear severely; tear badly; rip all over.
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(surveying) To occupy a point, then enter the wrong point for the backsight, or forget to enter the backsight.
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(transitive) To make a breach in.
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(transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
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(intransitive, acting) To fail to act as a certain character; to be or act out of character.
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(intransitive) To fail, especially socially or for political reasons.
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(intransitive) To interrupt one's conversation; speak before another person has finished speaking.
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To deliver unfortunate or upsetting news to someone.
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To remove a piece from a whole by breaking or snapping
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(intransitive) To suddenly get pimples or a rash, especially on one's face.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, rigor.
v
To breach a norm against communication or against communicating a specific type of information.
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(military) To end radio silence.
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(intransitive, telecommunications) Of a conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection; of a signal, to deteriorate.
n
That which breaks off, or is broken off
n
(obsolete, derogatory) An untrustworthy person; someone who habitually breaks vows and promises.
n
Alternative spelling of breakup [The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.]
n
Synonym of dumper (person who terminates the relationship):
n
(obsolete, derogatory) An untrustworthy person; someone who habitually breaks vows and promises.
n
Something that has been broken.
n
(sports) A loss of organization (of the parts of a system).
v
Obsolete spelling of break [(transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.]
n
(figuratively) The point at which a person or system succumbs to stresses or pressures and descends into crisis.
adj
(dialectal) Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.
n
A loss of emotional control; a breakdown.
adj
Indicative of breaking; easily broken.
n
(obsolete) Alternative form of breach [A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence]
v
(transitive) To break in pieces; divide.
adj
(participial adjective; mechanical, engineering) (sometimes comparative) Having been broken in to seat the parts.
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(MLE) Alternative form of break [(transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.]
v
(intransitive, slang, computing) To crash or glitch.
v
To push through forcefully.
v
To bulldoze (push through forcefully).
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(idiomatic) To disillusion; to disabuse someone of a false notion or rationalization that has grown comfortable.
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(idiomatic) The complete termination of a relationship, or exit from a situation.
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(intransitive) to break, separate.
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(of a machine) To fail; to stop working.
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(intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.
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(informal) To fail utterly.
n
Alternative form of crashdump [(computing) A file holding the contents of memory at the point when a program crashed, possibly useful in debugging.]
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(idiomatic, transitive) To insult, to belittle.
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(idiomatic, transitive) To utterly defeat or overwhelm.
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(transitive, figuratively) To hurt a person deeply, especially emotionally.
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(transitive, idiomatic, Britain) To move aggressively in front of another vehicle while driving.
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(transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
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(informal) To demolish (especially a house or fixture).
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(US, colloquial, slang) To sing a song poorly.
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(transitive, colloquial) To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
n
A breaking or bursting apart; a breach.
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(idiomatic) To announce surprising or alarming information suddenly and without warning.
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(computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
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(slang, computing) To transfer a large quantity of information or knowledge from one person to another, particularly subjects of a technical nature; to lecture
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(transitive, slang) To jilt or desert (a person).
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(transitive, slang) To kill; assassinate.
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(rare, historical) To injure (a dog) by cutting away the pads of the forefeet, thereby preventing it from hunting.
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(figuratively, transitive) To bring a definite end to; finish completely.
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(intransitive) To disintegrate, to break into pieces.
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To break into a number of segments; to collapse.
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Alternative form of falling out [(idiomatic) A rift between people or groups, often following a disagreement or quarrel]
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(figuratively) To be emotionally devastated; to break down.
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(archaic) To break through, interrupt.
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(obsolete) To break; to violate.
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(transitive, intransitive) To break, or cause something to break.
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(transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
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To fragment (break into fragments)
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(transitive, figuratively) To shoot down; to put an end to.
v
To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.
adj
powerful enough to overwhelm or knock down
v
(euphemistic, transitive) To euthanize an animal.
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To have a breakdown; to collapse or fail utterly.
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(transitive, figuratively, by extension) To kill or slaughter, or to injure by knocking down, especially in large numbers and in a ruthless manner.
n
(idiomatic) A short break in a meeting or in a classroom setting, intended to improve attention by giving people a chance to move around.
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(transitive) to break or interrupt abruptly
v
(transitive, Internet slang) To automatically ignore a particular poster.
v
(figuratively) To thoroughly refute something.
v
(transitive) To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish.
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(transitive) To demolish; to level to the ground.
v
(transitive) To destroy completely; to raze to the ground.
adj
Pulled away from forcefully.
n
(computing, uncountable, dated) backspace
n
A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
v
(transitive) To destroy or disable something.
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(transitive) To find out by prying.
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(transitive, colloquial) To render unconscious; to knock out.
v
(figuratively, of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions.
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To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
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To terminate a marriage or marriage-like relationship; to divorce or permanently separate.
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(informal) The situation of breakup or divorce.
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(intransitive, informal) To die.
v
Alternative form of strikebreak [To break a strike; to work for a business where the union members are on strike.]
v
(video games, transitive) To render (a character) unable to move or react by repeatedly hitting them and keeping them in a stunned state.
v
(transitive) To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
v
(informal) To soundly defeat someone, or a team.
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(figuratively) To thrash out.
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(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To break completely; crush.
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(obsolete) To strike violently; dash to pieces.
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(transitive) To tear in pieces.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To tear apart, tear asunder.
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To pull apart or asunder; touse.
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(obsolete, transitive) To ruin completely; destroy.
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(intransitive, obsolete) To break in pieces.
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(obsolete, transitive) To pull violently; to touse.
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To deplete an area of all individuals of a certain animal, bird, etc., by trapping.
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(transitive, slang, neologism) To break up with a partner around Thanksgiving.
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(transitive, rare) To take down or discredit (bombastic speech or writing).
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To strike a heavy blow upward.
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(transitive, archaic or poetic) To tear up (wrench from the ground).
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(transitive) To get (something or someone) out of an entrenched position.
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(transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number of people or things); to obliterate.
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