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English Synonyms: more detail...
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break:
- break; fracture; break to pieces; refract; smash; destroy; wreck; break into pieces; smash into pieces; intentionally destroy; shatter; smash to pieces; smash up; knock to pieces; become defective; fall to pieces; throw in; crack; snap; dawn; infringe; violate; transgress; misbehave; break in; separate; split up; fall apart; come apart; check; develop; recrudesce; stop; break off; discontinue; interrupt; damp; dampen; weaken; soften; go; die; fail; break down; give way; give out; go bad; conk out; pause; intermit; get out; get around; better; snap off; wear; bust; wear out; break up; burst; erupt; break dance; break-dance; collapse; give; founder; cave in; fall in; break away; break out; ruin; bankrupt; bump; demote; kick downstairs; relegate; part; split; breach; offend; infract; go against
- break; intermission; pause; interval; fracture; recess; rest-break; breakout; escaping; escape; getting away; jailbreak; flight; playtime; lunch break; lunch time; lunch hour; lunch; respite; time out; prisonbreak; gaolbreak; prison-breaking; open frame; breaking; breakage; gap; interruption; disruption; break of serve; breach; rupture; severance; rift; falling out; good luck; happy chance; shift; fault; faulting; geological fault; suspension
- break; burst; breaking; bursting; crack; plough; pause
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Detailed Synonyms for break in English
break:
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to break
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to break
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to break
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to break
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to break
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to break
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to break
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to break
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to break
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to break
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to break
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to break
– weaken or destroy in spirit or body 1 -
to break
– diminish or discontinue abruptly 1 -
to break
– fracture a bone of 1 -
to break
– fall sharply 1 -
to break
– make submissive, obedient, or useful 1 -
to break
– be broken in 1 -
to break
– crack; of the male voice in puberty 1 -
to break
– render inoperable or ineffective 1 -
to break
– become separated into pieces or fragments 1to separate; to break; to split up; to fall apart; come apart– become separated into pieces or fragments 1-
come apart verb
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to break
– destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments 1 -
to break
– become fractured; break or crack on the surface only 1 -
to break
– happen 1 -
to break
– prevent completion 1 -
to break
– terminate 1 -
to break
– lessen in force or effect 1 -
to break
– stop operating or functioning 1 -
to break
– change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another 1 -
to break
– come into being 1 -
to break
– find the solution or key to 1 -
to break
– find a flaw in 1 -
to break
– undergo breaking 1 -
to break
– interrupt the flow of current in 1 -
to break
– cease an action temporarily 1 -
to break
– be released or become known; of news 1 -
to break
– surpass in excellence 1 -
to break
– pierce or penetrate 1 -
to break
– become punctured or penetrated 1 -
to break
– break a piece from a whole 1 -
to break
– go to pieces 1 -
to break
– ruin completely 1 -
to break
– separate from a clinch, in boxing 1 -
to break
– make the opening shot that scatters the balls 1 -
to break
– destroy the completeness of a set of related items 1 -
to break
– exchange for smaller units of money 1 -
to break
– force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up 1 -
to break
– do a break dance 1 -
to break
– curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves 1 -
to break
– break down, literally or metaphorically 1 -
to break
– emerge from the surface of a body of water 1 -
to break
– scatter or part 1 -
to break
– make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing 1 -
to break
– move away or escape suddenly 1 -
to break
– change directions suddenly 1 -
to break
– reduce to bankruptcy 1 -
to break
– assign to a lower position; reduce in rank 1to break; to bump; demote; kick downstairs; relegate– assign to a lower position; reduce in rank 1-
demote verb
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kick downstairs verb
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relegate verb
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to break
– discontinue an association or relation; go different ways 1 -
to break
– invalidate by judicial action 1 -
to break
– interrupt a continued activity 1 -
to break
– cause the failure or ruin of 1 -
to break
– act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises 1to breach; to break; to offend; to violate; to transgress; infract; go against– act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises 1-
infract verb
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go against verb
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to break
– enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act 1 -
to break
– happen or take place 1 -
to break
– come forth or begin from a state of latency 1 -
to break
– fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns 1to break; to violate; go against– fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns 1-
go against verb
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to break
– give up 1 -
to break
– cause to give up a habit 1 -
to break
– vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity 1 -
to break
– come to an end 1
Conjugations for break:
present
- break
- break
- breaks
- break
- break
- break
simple past
- broke
- broke
- broke
- broke
- broke
- broke
present perfect
- have broken
- have broken
- has broken
- have broken
- have broken
- have broken
past continuous
- was breaking
- were breaking
- was breaking
- were breaking
- were breaking
- were breaking
future
- shall break
- will break
- will break
- shall break
- will break
- will break
continuous present
- am breaking
- are breaking
- is breaking
- are breaking
- are breaking
- are breaking
subjunctive
- be broken
- be broken
- be broken
- be broken
- be broken
- be broken
diverse
- break!
- let's break!
- broken
- breaking
1. I, 2. you, 3. he/she/it, 4. we, 5. you, 6. they
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the break
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the break
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the break
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the break
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the break
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the break
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the break
– a pause from doing something (as work) 1 -
the break
– a pause from doing something (as work) 1 -
the break
– an escape from jail 1the break; the breakout; the jailbreak; the prisonbreak; the gaolbreak; the prison-breaking– an escape from jail 1 -
the break
– any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare 1 -
the break
– a sudden dash 1 -
the break
– the act of breaking something 1 -
the break
– an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity 1the gap; the break; the interruption; the disruption– an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity 1 -
the break
– (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving 1the break; the break of serve– (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving 1 -
the break
– the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool 1 -
the break
– an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion) 1 -
the break
– a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) 1 -
the break
– an unexpected piece of good luck 1 -
the break
– the occurrence of breaking 1 -
the break
– some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity 1 -
the break
– (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other 1 -
the break
– breaking of hard tissue such as bone 1 -
the break
– a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something 1the break; the suspension; the interruption; the pause; the intermission– a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something 1 -
the break
– A short period of time in a resource's schedule where the resource is not available for work. 2
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