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Verbit
- (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (transitive, US) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To cause (a person) to lose his or her spirit or will; to crush the spirits of; to ruin (a person) emotionally.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose its will.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in a player's favor.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination or the like.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (intransitive of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object not hit something else beneath.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
- (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (backgammon, transitive) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
- (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
- (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack
- (obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
- (archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
Substantiivit
- An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A rest or pause, usually from work; a breaktime.
- A temporary split (with a romantic partner).
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention: big break, lucky break, bad break.
- (British, weather) a change; the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather
- The beginning (of the morning).
- An act of escaping.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table
- (soccer) The counter-attack
- (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
Esimerkit
- And he played no favorites: when his son-in-law sacked a city he had been told to spare, Genghis broke him to private.
- See how the dean begins to break; / Poor gentleman he droops apace.
- Katharine, break thy mind to me.
- The Baggies almost hit back instantly when Graham Dorrans broke from midfield and pulled the trigger from 15 yards but Paul Robinson did superbly to tip the Scot's drive around the post.
- When the droplets hit a solid wall the emulsion breaks instantly forming a bitumen on the wall and thus a layer up to 1 cm thick can be sprayed in one operation without requiring drying in between.
- Conversely, as the emulsion breaks and the system returns to the original state, energy is released.
- I couldn't hear a thing he was saying, so I broke the connection and called him back.
- The referee broke the boxers' clinch.
- The referee ordered the boxers to break the clinch.
- Not long after this event, Clausen became involved in another disciplinary situation and was broken to private—the only one to win the Medal of Honor in Vietnam.
- One morning after the budget had failed to balance Finanzminister von Scholz picked up Der Reichsanzeiger and found he had been broken to sergeant.
- He that puts all upon adventures doth oftentimes break, and come to poverty.
- Is it your or my turn to break?
- Yet when play restarted the Czech was a train that kept on running over Nadal. After breaking Nadal in the opening game of the final set, he went 2-0 up and later took the count to 4-2 with yet another emphatic ace – one of his 22 throughout.
- He needs to break serve to win the match.
- The policeman broke sixty on a residential street in his hurry to catch the thief.
- I can't believe she broke 3 under par!
- He broke the men's 100-meter record.
- His voice breaks when he gets emotional.
- The arrest was standard, when suddenly the suspect broke ugly.
- Things began breaking bad for him when his parents died.
- With the mood broken, what we had been doing seemed pretty silly.
- I think we need a break.
- Pampered jades [...] which need nor break nor bit.
- Blackpool were not without their opportunities - thanks to their willingness to commit and leave men forward even when under severe pressure - and they looked very capable of scoring on the break.
- The final break in the Greenmount area is Kirra Point.
- prison break
- It was a clean break.
- make a break for the door
- make a break for it
- at the break of day
- daybreak
- But they marginally improved after the break as Didier Drogba hit the post.
- His turning on the lights broke the enchantment.
- Let’s take a five-minute break.
- The fiddle break was amazing; it was a pity the singer came back in on the wrong note.
- He waited minutes for a break in the traffic to cross the highway.
- The sun came out in a break in the clouds.
- The femur has a clean break and so should heal easily.
- To break upon the score of danger or expense is to be mean and narrow-spirited.
- to break into a run or gallop
- I see a great officer broken.
- to break flax
- The cavalry were not able to break the British squares.
- You have to break an elephant before you can use it as an animal of burden.
- break one's word
- He broke his vows by cheating on his wife.
- When you go to Vancouver, promise me you won't break the law.
- With arts like these rich Matho, when he speaks, / Attracts all fees, and little lawyers breaks.
- The recession broke some small businesses.
- Go, release them, Ariel; / My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore.
- I had won four games in a row, but now you've broken my streak of luck.
- to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey
- I've got to break this habit I have of biting my nails.
- The interrogator hoped to break her to get her testimony against her accomplices.
- Time travel would break the laws of physics.
- My heart is breaking.
- an old man, broken with the storms of state
- Interrogators have used many forms of torture to break prisoners of war.
- Her child's death broke Angela.
- The wholesaler broke the container loads into palettes and boxes for local retailers.
- Can you break a hundred-dollar bill for me?
- He slipped on the ice and broke his leg.
- She broke his neck.
- His ribs broke under the weight of the rocks piled on his chest.
- She broke the vase.
- And from the turf a fountain broke, / And gurgled at our feet.
- His coughing broke the silence.
- Like the crash of thunderbolts[...], the sound of musquetry broke over the lawn, [...].
- The day begins to break, and night is fled.
- Morning has broken.
- When news of their divorce broke, ...
- In the latest breaking news...
- I don't know how to break this to you, but your cat is not coming back.
- The newsman wanted to break a big story, something that would make him famous.
- He survived the jump out the window because the bushes below broke his fall.
- Let's break for lunch.
- If the vase falls to the floor, it might break.
- The clouds are still above; and, while I speak, / A second deluge o'er our head may break.
- The forecast says the hot weather will break by midweek.
- break a seal
- Adding 64-bit support broke backward compatibility with earlier versions.
- Did you two break the trolley by racing with it?
- On the hottest day of the year the refrigerator broke.
- Letting white have three extra queens would break chess.
- Susan's fever broke at about 3 AM, and the doctor said the worst was over.
- Out, out, hyena! these are thy wonted arts [...] / To break all faith, all vows, deceive, betray.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | broken | Partisiipin perfekti | broke (vanhahtava) |
| Partisiipin perfekti | breaked (epävirallinen) | Partisiipin perfekti | ybroken |
| Partisiipin perfekti | ybroke | Imperfekti | broke |
| Imperfekti | brake (vanhahtava) | Imperfekti | breaked (epävirallinen) |
| Partisiipin preesens | breaking | Monikko | breaks |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | breaks | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | breaketh (vanhahtava) |