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break
English
- 🔊 an escape from jail“the breakout was carefully planned”
- 🔊 a sudden dash“he made a break for the open door”
- 🔊 an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity“it was presented without commercial breaks”
- 🔊 (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving“he was up two breaks in the second set”
- 🔊 the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- 🔊 an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)“then there was a break in her voice”
- 🔊 an unexpected piece of good luck“he finally got his big break”
- 🔊 the occurrence of breaking“the break in the dam threatened the valley”
- 🔊 any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare“the break in the eighth frame cost him the match”
- 🔊 the act of breaking something“the breakage was unavoidable”
- 🔊 some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity“the telephone is an annoying interruption”
- 🔊 breaking of hard tissue such as bone“it was a nasty fracture”
- 🔊 a pause from doing something (as work)“we took a 10-minute break”
- 🔊 a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)“they hoped to avoid a break in relations”
- 🔊 a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- 🔊 (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other“they built it right over a geological fault”
- 🔊 weaken or destroy in spirit or body“His resistance was broken”
- 🔊 diminish or discontinue abruptly“The patient's fever broke last night”
- 🔊 fall sharply“stock prices broke”
- 🔊 be broken in“If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress”
- 🔊 crack“his voice is breaking--he should no longer sing in the choir”
- 🔊 render inoperable or ineffective“You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!”
- 🔊 become separated into pieces or fragments“The figurine broke”
- 🔊 destroy the integrity of“He broke the glass plate”
- 🔊 happen“Report the news as it develops”
- 🔊 prevent completion“stop the project”
- 🔊 change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another“Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children”
- 🔊 come into being“light broke over the horizon”
- 🔊 find the solution or key to“break the code”
- 🔊 find a flaw in“break an alibi”
- 🔊 undergo breaking“The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages”
- 🔊 interrupt the flow of current in“break a circuit”
- 🔊 be released or become known“News of her death broke in the morning”
- 🔊 pierce or penetrate“The blade broke her skin”
- 🔊 become punctured or penetrated“The skin broke”
- 🔊 break a piece from a whole“break a branch from a tree”
- 🔊 go to pieces“The lawn mower finally broke”
- 🔊 ruin completely“He busted my radio!”
- 🔊 separate from a clinch, in boxing“The referee broke the boxers”
- 🔊 make the opening shot that scatters the balls
Spanish
- 🔊 break break
- 🔊 tacada break
- 🔊 chingar to break
- 🔊 derromper to break
- 🔊 descachar to break
- 🔊 malograr to break
- 🔊 romper to break
- 🔊 parón break, stop
- 🔊 cargar to break, ruin
- 🔊 escoñar to break, smash
- 🔊 rompimiento break, break-up
- 🔊 desturcar to break, destroy
- 🔊 alto break, pause, rest
- 🔊 pausa break, pause, rest
- 🔊 descachimbar to break, destroy, ruin
- 🔊 desmarimbar to break, destroy, ruin
- 🔊 tranzar to break, break off, cut off
- 🔊 saltar to break, breach (rules etc.)
- 🔊 interrumpir to break, to break off, to halt, to cease
- 🔊 paréntesis break, gap (period of temporal interruption)
- 🔊 respiro break, respite, breather, relief, reprieve, rest
- 🔊 quebrar to break, to snap, to shatter (to smash or rupture)
- 🔊 brecha break, breakthrough (change in circumstance or situation)
- 🔊 escapada break, trip, jaunt, ramble, getaway (short excursion for pleasure)
- 🔊 quebrantar to break, to breach (e.g. peace, the rules, a policy, a principle)
- 🔊 deshacer to break, to break up (e.g. a treaty, a business, a band, a united effort)
- 🔊 abrir to break, break open, (new ground, a game, etc.); to break out (e.g., champagne); to breach