verb : BROKE
Source: WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) terminate; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty" ;
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2. (
) become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" ;
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3. (
) render inoperable or ineffective; "You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!" ;
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5. (
) destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments; "He broke the glass plate"; "She broke the match" ;
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6. (
) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise" ;
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7. (
) move away or escape suddenly; "The horses broke from the stable"; "Three inmates broke jail"; "Nobody can break out;
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8. (
) scatter or part; "The clouds broke after the heavy downpour" ;
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10. (
) prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations" ;
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11. (
) enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act; "Someone broke in while I was on vacation"; "They broke into my car and stole my radio!"; "who broke into my account last night?" ;
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12. (
) make submissive, obedient, or useful; "The horse was tough to break"; "I broke in the new intern" ;
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13. (
) fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns; "This sentence violates the rules of syntax" ;
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15. (
- unwrap ,
- disclose ,
- let_on ,
- bring_out ,
- reveal ,
- discover ,
- expose ,
- divulge ,
- break ,
- give_away ,
- let_out ,
- uncover
) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case"; "The newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings" ;
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16. (
) come into being; "light broke over the horizon"; "Voices broke in the air" ;
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17. (
) stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident" ;
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18. (
) interrupt a continued activity; "She had broken with the traditional patterns" ;
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19. (
) make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing; "The ranks broke" ;
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20. (
) curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves; "The surf broke" ;
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22. (
) be broken in; "If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress" ;
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23. (
) come to an end; "The heat wave finally broke yesterday" ;
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24. (
) vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity; "The flat plain was broken by tall mesas" ;
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25. (
) cause to give up a habit; "She finally broke herself of smoking cigarettes" ;
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26. (
) give up; "break cigarette smoking" ;
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27. (
) come forth or begin from a state of latency; "The first winter storm broke over New York" ;
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28. (
) happen or take place; "Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months" ;
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29. (
) cause the failure or ruin of; "His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage"; "This play will either make or break the playwright" ;
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30. (
) invalidate by judicial action; "The will was broken" ;
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31. (
) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up" ;
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32. (
) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant" ;
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33. (
) reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him" ;
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34. (
) change directions suddenly ;
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35. (
) emerge from the surface of a body of water; "The whales broke" ;
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36. (
) break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice" ;
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37. (
) do a break dance; "Kids were break-dancing at the street corner" ;
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38. (
) exchange for smaller units of money; "I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy" ;
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39. (
) destroy the completeness of a set of related items; "The book dealer would not break the set" ;
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40. (
) make the opening shot that scatters the balls ;
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41. (
) separate from a clinch, in boxing; "The referee broke the boxers" ;
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42. (
) go to pieces; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely" ;
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43. (
) break a piece from a whole; "break a branch from a tree" ;
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44. (
) become punctured or penetrated; "The skin broke" ;
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45. (
) pierce or penetrate; "The blade broke her skin" ;
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46. (
) be released or become known; of news; "News of her death broke in the morning" ;
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47. (
) cease an action temporarily; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch" ;
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48. (
) interrupt the flow of current in; "break a circuit" ;
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49. (
) undergo breaking; "The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages" ;
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50. (
) find a flaw in; "break an alibi"; "break down a proof" ;
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51. (
) find the solution or key to; "break the code" ;
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52. (
) change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another; "Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children" ;
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53. (
) happen; "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time" ;
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55. (
) crack; of the male voice in puberty; "his voice is breaking;
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56. (
) fall sharply; "stock prices broke" ;
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57. (
) fracture a bone of; "I broke my foot while playing hockey" ;
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58. (
) diminish or discontinue abruptly; "The patient's fever broke last night" ;
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59. (
) weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death" ;
Adjective : BROKE
Source: WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) lacking funds; "`skint' is a British slang term" ;
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