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breaknoun a momentary halt in an activitythere was a brief break after the first movement as the doors to the concert hall were opened and the latecomers were allowed in breath, breather, interruption, lull, pause, recess time-outinterim, interlude, intermission, interval, respite, restcessation, discontinuance, downtime, ending, expiration, finishing, hitch, lapse, stoppage, stopping, terminationabeyance, moratorium, surcease, suspensiondiscontinuity, gap, hiatus continuation, endurance, persistence, progress, progressionextension, prolongation a period during which the usual routine of school or work is suspendedmost of the students at the boarding school are going home for Christmas break holiday(chiefly British), hols(British), leave, recess, vacation sabbaticalfurlough, libertybreather, relaxation, respite, restinterim, intermission, intervalfeast, holy day, legal holidayidling, loafing, lounging, slacking an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge)the rancher repaired the break in the fence where the horse had gotten through breach, discontinuity, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, interstice, interval, opening, rent, rift, separation, void chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissurenotch, slit, slot, splitinterspace, poreabyss, aperture, cavity, chasm, gape, orificefracture, rupture, severance, sundering a favorable combination of circumstances, time, and placein classic fashion, her big break came when, as an understudy, she took over for an ailing star chance, occasion, opening, opportunity, room, shot play, wayjuncture, pass an unexpected benefit or advantage resulting from the uncertain course of eventsa guy who just seems to get all the breaks in life the act or an instance of getting free from danger or confinementa desperate break from that hellhole breakout, bunk(British), escape, flight, getaway, lam, rout, slip jailbreakdeliverance, liberation, redemption, release, rescue, salvationclose call, close shave, near miss captivity, confinement, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration, internmentcustody, detention, hold, holding, retentionendangerment, hazard, imperilment, jeopardy, peril, risk, trouble to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forciblyhated telling her that I had broken her favorite glass vase break up, bust, disintegrate, dismember, disrupt, fracture, fragment, rive atomize, crush, grind, powder, pulverize, reduceblast, blow up, burst, detonate, explodecrack, pop, shatter, shiver, smashchip, sliver, splinter, splitimplodedestroy, ruin, wreck doctor, fix, heal, mend, patch, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, renovate, repair to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate endthe final vote broke the deadlock break off, break up, can(slang), cease, cut off, cut out, desist (from), discontinue, drop, end, give over, halt, knock off, lay off, leave off, pack (up or in), quit, shut off, stop complete, conclude, finishclose (down)deactivateblock, blockade, dam, delay, detain, hinder, hold, hold back, impede, kibosh, obstruct, stemcall, suspendarrest, brake, check, clamp down, rein (in), squash, squelch, stamp, stanch(or staunch), stunt, suppress, turn backpause, stay, suspendabolish, abort, annul, demolish, destroy, dissolve, kill, ruin, scuttle, snuff have done with, put the kibosh on carry on, continue, follow through (with), keep up, run onadvance, proceed, progressactuate, drive, impel, propel, stir to bring to a lower grade or rankthe captain was broken to lieutenant commander for disobeying a direct order from his group commander bust, degrade, demote, disrate, downgrade, reduce can, cashier, dismiss, downsize, fire, lay off, sackabase, debase, demean, humble, humiliate, lower advance, elevate, promote, raise hire to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary languageAlan Turing and the Bletchley Park mathematicians broke the Enigma code being used by the Nazis crack, decipher, decode, decrypt descramble, unscramblerender, translatedope (out), figure out, puzzle (out), solve, unravel, unriddle, work, work out cipher, code, encipher, encode, encrypt garble, jumble (up), mix (up) to come to a temporary halt in one's activityshe broke from her ruminations to find that it was already dinnertime pause hesitatebreak in, interruptcease, discontinue, end, finish, stop, terminateknock off, lay off, quitlapse, let up catch one's breath, hold one's horses continue, persistadvance, progressextend, prolong, stretch to cut into and turn over the sod of (a piece of land) using a bladed implementfarmers once broke fields with horse-drawn plows to fail to keephad to confess that he had broken his promise not to share their conversation with anyone breach, contravene, fracture, infringe (on or upon), offend, traduce, transgress, violate disobey, rebelblow off, brush (off), disregard, flout, ignore, neglect, overlook, overpass, pass over, slight, tune out, wink (at)dismiss, pooh-pooh(also pooh), scorn, shrug offdefy, resist, withstand comply (with), conform (to), follow, mind, obey, observe defer (to), serve, submit (to), surrender (to), yield (to)attend, hear, heed, listen (to), mark, note, notice, regard, watch to find an answer for through reasoningProfessor Bates broke the problem when she realized that it was possible to synthesize the necessary compounds answer, crack, dope (out), figure out, puzzle (out), resolve, riddle (out), solve, unravel, unriddle, work, work out conclude, decide, deduce, gather, infer, judge, reasonclear (up), iron out, straighten (out), unscramble, untangle, untieassume, conjecture, divine, guess, presume, speculatedecipher, decode to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection ofI broke a tooth on the hard candy blemish, bloody, compromise, crab, cripple, cross (up), damage, deface, disfigure, endamage, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, injure, mar, spoil, vitiate deteriorate, enervate, enfeeble, undermine, weakenerode, scour, wash out, wear (away)blight, tarnishdent, ding, dintbotch, gum (up), queerlacerate, wounddisable, hamstring, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, torment, tortureannihilate, bang up, bash, batter, clobber, crush, dash, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, do in, pulverize, raze, ruin, scourge, shatter, smash, tear down, total, waste, wipe out, wreck doctor, fix, mend, patch, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, renovate, repair, revamp cure, heal, help, rectify, rehabilitate, remedyedit, remodel, reviseameliorate, better, enhance, enrich, improve, meliorate, perfect, refine to stop functioningafter working for 30 years, the pump simply broke one day break down, conk (out), crash, cut out, die, fail, give out, stall fizzle, sputter, wheezeact up, malfunctionjam start (up) to hasten away from something dangerous or frighteningthe herd of gazelles broke when they saw the lions racing toward them from the ridge above bolt, bug out, flee, fly, hightail (it), retreat, run, run away, run off, skedaddle abscond, clear out, decamp, elope, escape, get (away), get out, lam, light out, make off, mizzle(chiefly British), scarper(British), scat, scram, skip (out), skirr beat a retreat, beat it, make tracks, turn tail beard, brave, confront, dare, defy, faceabide, dwell, hang around, linger, remain, stay, stick around, tarry to use up all the physical energy ofthe trek up the mountain just about broke me burn out, bust, do in, do up, drain, exhaust, fag, fatigue, frazzle, harass, kill, knock out, outwear, tire, tucker (out), wash out, wear, wear out, weary debilitate, enervate, enfeeble, sap, waste, weaken wear to a frazzle activate, energize, invigorate, rejuvenate, strengthen, vitalizerelax, rest, unwind to become knownas soon as the scandal broke, the CEO fled the country circulate, come out, get about, get around, get out, get round, leak (out), out, spread develop, transpire, unfolddisclose, reveal, spill, tell hush (up), suppressconceal, disguise, hide, masksecrete to cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debtsanother bad investment could break him to come into existencethe crisis had passed, and a new day was breaking actualize, appear, arise, begin, commence, dawn, engender, form, materialize, originate, set in, spring, start be, breathe, exist, live, subsistarrive, come on, emergecoalesce, cohere, shape (up)continue, endure, last, persist, survive cease, end, stop conclude, desist, discontinue, finish, halt, quit, terminatedisappear, dissolve, evaporate, vanishdepart, die, expire, pass away, perish to depart abruptly from a straight line or coursethe running back broke to his left before running out of bounds cut, sheer, swerve, veer, yaw, zag, zig skew, slew(also slue)arc, arch, bend, bow, crook, curve, hook, round, sweep, wheelabout-face, pivotcircle, coil, curl, loop, spiralturn, twist, windweave, zigzagdeviate, stray, wander, waver straighten to diminish the price or value ofdistressing economic news that will break many energy stocks attenuate, cheapen, depreciate, depress, devaluate, devalue, downgrade, lower, mark down, reduce, sink, write down, write off debase, demonetizeunderestimate, underprice, underrate, undervalueabridge, compress, contract, de-escalate, deflate, downsize, dwindle, lessen, moderate, shrink appreciate, enhance, mark up, upgrade bloat, blow up, inflateoverestimate, overprice, overrate, overvalueadd, aggrandize, amplify, augment, balloon, boost, compound, dilate, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, heighten, increase, maximize, multiply, raise, swell, up to go beyond the limit ofa menu with prices that is likely to break the budgets of all but the wealthiest of diners exceed, outreach, outrun, overpass, overreach, overrun, overshoot, overstep, surpass, transcend encroach, entrench(also intrench), infringe, invade, trespassoverdo, overuse, overutilize, overwork to penetrate the surface (as of water) from belowdolphins were breaking all around the boat broach, surface emerge, rise dive, drop, drown, founder, plunge, sink, submerge, submerse 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