Language: English
Tense: Present Simple
Tense: Present Simple
Simple Forms
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| to break | break let's break break |
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| not to break | do not break let's not break do not break |
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See also verbs with similar meaning:
break apart,
break away,
break bread,
break camp,
break dance,
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- Weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- Diminish or discontinue abruptly
- Fracture a bone of
- Fall sharply
- Make submissive, obedient, or useful
- Be broken in
- Crack; of the male voice in puberty
- Render inoperable or ineffective
- Become separated into pieces or fragments
- Destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- Happen
- Prevent completion
- Terminate
- Lessen in force or effect
- Stop operating or functioning
- Change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- Come into being
- Find the solution or key to
- Find a flaw in
- Undergo breaking
- Interrupt the flow of current in
- Cease an action temporarily
- Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- Be released or become known; of news
- Surpass in excellence
- Pierce or penetrate
- Become punctured or penetrated
- Break a piece from a whole
- Go to pieces
- Ruin completely
- Separate from a clinch, in boxing
- Make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- Destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- Exchange for smaller units of money
- Force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- Do a break dance
- Curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- Break down, literally or metaphorically
- Emerge from the surface of a body of water
- Scatter or part
- Make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- Move away or escape suddenly
- Change directions suddenly
- Reduce to bankruptcy
- Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- Invalidate by judicial action
- Interrupt a continued activity
- Cause the failure or ruin of
- Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- Enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- Happen or take place
- Come forth or begin from a state of latency
- Fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- Give up
- Cause to give up a habit
- Vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- Come to an end
- A man broken by the terrible experience of near-death
- The patient's fever broke last night
- I broke my foot while playing hockey
- Stock prices broke
- I broke in the new intern
- If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress
- His voice is breaking--he should no longer sing in the choir
- You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!
- The freshly baked loaf fell apart
- She broke the match
- The glass cracked when it was heated
- These political movements recrudesce from time to time
- Break off the negotiations
- Break the cycle of poverty
- Break a fall
- Her eyesight went after the accident
- Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children
- Voices broke in the air
- Break the code
- Break down a proof
- The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages
- Break a circuit
- Let's break for lunch
- Unwrap the evidence in the murder case
- News of her death broke in the morning
- Break a record
- The blade broke her skin
- The skin broke
- Break a branch from a tree
- The old chair finally fell apart completely
- He busted my radio!
- The referee broke the boxers
- The book dealer would not break the set
- I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy
- Erupt in anger
- Kids were break-dancing at the street corner
- The surf broke
- The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice
- The whales broke
- The clouds broke after the heavy downpour
- The ranks broke
- Nobody can break out--this prison is high security
- The slump in the financial markets smashed him
- He was broken down to Sergeant
- My friend and I split up
- The will was broken
- She had broken with the traditional patterns
- This play will either make or break the playwright
- Break a promise
- Who broke into my account last night?
- Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months
- The first winter storm broke over New York
- This sentence violates the rules of syntax
- Break cigarette smoking
- She finally broke herself of smoking cigarettes
- The flat plain was broken by tall mesas
- The heat wave finally broke yesterday
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- Weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- Diminish or discontinue abruptly
- Fracture a bone of
- Fall sharply
- Make submissive, obedient, or useful
- Be broken in
- Crack; of the male voice in puberty
- Render inoperable or ineffective
- Become separated into pieces or fragments
- Destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- Happen
- Prevent completion
- Terminate
- Lessen in force or effect
- Stop operating or functioning
- Change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- Come into being
- Find the solution or key to
- Find a flaw in
- Undergo breaking
- Interrupt the flow of current in
- Cease an action temporarily
- Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- Be released or become known; of news
- Surpass in excellence
- Pierce or penetrate
- Become punctured or penetrated
- Break a piece from a whole
- Go to pieces
- Ruin completely
- Separate from a clinch, in boxing
- Make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- Destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- Exchange for smaller units of money
- Force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- Do a break dance
- Curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- Break down, literally or metaphorically
- Emerge from the surface of a body of water
- Scatter or part
- Make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- Move away or escape suddenly
- Change directions suddenly
- Reduce to bankruptcy
- Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- Invalidate by judicial action
- Interrupt a continued activity
- Cause the failure or ruin of
- Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- Enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- Happen or take place
- Come forth or begin from a state of latency
- Fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- Give up
- Cause to give up a habit
- Vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- Come to an end
- A man broken by the terrible experience of near-death
- The patient's fever broke last night
- I broke my foot while playing hockey
- Stock prices broke
- I broke in the new intern
- If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress
- His voice is breaking--he should no longer sing in the choir
- You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!
- The freshly baked loaf fell apart
- She broke the match
- The glass cracked when it was heated
- These political movements recrudesce from time to time
- Break off the negotiations
- Break the cycle of poverty
- Break a fall
- Her eyesight went after the accident
- Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children
- Voices broke in the air
- Break the code
- Break down a proof
- The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages
- Break a circuit
- Let's break for lunch
- Unwrap the evidence in the murder case
- News of her death broke in the morning
- Break a record
- The blade broke her skin
- The skin broke
- Break a branch from a tree
- The old chair finally fell apart completely
- He busted my radio!
- The referee broke the boxers
- The book dealer would not break the set
- I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy
- Erupt in anger
- Kids were break-dancing at the street corner
- The surf broke
- The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice
- The whales broke
- The clouds broke after the heavy downpour
- The ranks broke
- Nobody can break out--this prison is high security
- The slump in the financial markets smashed him
- He was broken down to Sergeant
- My friend and I split up
- The will was broken
- She had broken with the traditional patterns
- This play will either make or break the playwright
- Break a promise
- Who broke into my account last night?
- Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months
- The first winter storm broke over New York
- This sentence violates the rules of syntax
- Break cigarette smoking
- She finally broke herself of smoking cigarettes
- The flat plain was broken by tall mesas
- The heat wave finally broke yesterday
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