Break
(v. t.) To strain apart |
Break
(v. t.) To lay open as by breaking |
Break
(v. t.) To lay open, as a purpose |
Break
(v. t.) To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise. |
Break
(v. t.) To interrupt |
Break
(v. t.) To destroy the completeness of |
Break
(v. t.) To destroy the arrangement of |
Break
(v. t.) To shatter to pieces |
Break
(v. t.) To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination |
Break
(v. t.) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of |
Break
(v. t.) To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind. |
Break
(v. t.) To diminish the force of |
Break
(v. t.) To impart, as news or information |
Break
(v. t.) To tame |
Break
(v. t.) To destroy the financial credit of |
Break
(v. t.) To destroy the official character and standing of |
Break
(v. i.) To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence |
Break
(v. i.) To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag. |
Break
(v. i.) To burst forth |
Break
(v. i.) To burst forth violently, as a storm. |
Break
(v. i.) To open up |
Break
(v. i.) To become weakened in constitution or faculties |
Break
(v. i.) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief |
Break
(v. i.) To fall in business |
Break
(v. i.) To make an abrupt or sudden change |
Break
(v. i.) To fail in musical quality |
Break
(v. i.) To fall out |
Break
(v. t.) An opening made by fracture or disruption. |
Break
(v. t.) An interruption of continuity |
Break
(v. t.) A projection or recess from the face of a building. |
Break
(v. t.) An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current. |
Break
(v. t.) An interruption |
Break
(v. t.) An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc. |
Break
(v. t.) The first appearing, as of light in the morning |
Break
(v. t.) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind. |
Break
(v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10. |
Break
(n.) See Commutator. |
Break-circuit
(n.) A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit. |
Break-up
(n.) Disruption |
Make
(n.) A companion |
Make
(v. t.) To cause to exist |
Make
(v. t.) To form of materials |
Make
(v. t.) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false |
Make
(v. t.) To bring about |
Make
(v. t.) To execute with the requisite formalities |
Make
(v. t.) To gain, as the result of one's efforts |
Make
(v. t.) To find, as the result of calculation or computation |
Make
(v. t.) To put a desired or desirable condition |
Make
(v. t.) To cause to be or become |
Make
(v. t.) To cause to appear to be |
break breakout
jailbreak
gaolbreak
prisonbreak
prison-breaking | an escape from jail, the breakout was carefully planned |
makeshift
stopgap
make-do | something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency |
open frame
break | any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare, the break in the eighth frame cost him the match |
| fast break | (basketball) a rapid dash to get a shot as soon as possible after taking possession of the ball |
| break | a sudden dash, he made a break for the open door |
shuffle
shuffling
make | the act of mixing cards haphazardly |
breakage
break
breaking | the act of breaking something, the breakage was unavoidable |
break interruption
disruption gap | an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity, it was presented without commercial breaks, there was a gap in his account |
| break break of serve | (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving, he was up two breaks in the second set |
| break | the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool |
break dancing
break dance | a form of solo dancing that involves rapid acrobatic moves in which different parts of the body touch the ground, normally performed to the rhythm of rap music |
busywork
make-work | active work of little value, while he was waiting he filled the days with busywork |
make-believe
pretend | the enactment of a pretense, it was just pretend |
housebreaking
break-in
breaking and entering | trespassing for an unlawful purpose, illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent |
respite
recess
break time out | a pause from doing something (as work), we took a -minute break, he took time out to recuperate |
| spring break | a week or more of recess during the spring term at school |
| break seal | a seal that must be broken when first used and cannot easily be resealed, it was stored in a tube with a break seal |
makeup
make-up
war paint | cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance |
constitution
composition physical composition
makeup
make-up | the way in which someone or something is composed |
pretense pretence
make-believe | imaginative intellectual play |
brand
make | a recognizable kind, there's a new brand of hero in the movies now, what make of car is that? |
| break | 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 |
rupture
breach
break severance
rift
falling out | a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions), they hoped to avoid a break in relations |
break good luck
happy chance | an unexpected piece of good luck, he finally got his big break |
makeup
make-up | an event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event, he missed the test and had to take a makeup, the two teams played a makeup one week later |
| break | the occurrence of breaking, the break in the dam threatened the valley |
interruption
break | some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity, the telephone is an annoying interruption, there was a break in the action when a player was hurt |
| service break | a tennis game won on the opponent's service |
coffee break
tea break | a snack taken during a break in the work day, a ten-minute coffee break, the British have tea breaks |
fault
faulting
geological fault
shift
fracture
break | (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, he studied the faulting of the earth's crust |
conciliator
make-peace
pacifier
peacemaker
reconciler | someone who tries to bring peace |
breakax
breakaxe
break-axe
Sloanea jamaicensis | West Indian timber tree having very hard wood |
tax benefit
tax break | a tax deduction that is granted in order to encourage a particular type of commercial activity |
fracture
break | breaking of hard tissue such as bone, it was a nasty fracture, the break seems to have been caused by a fall |
c dawn
dawning
morning aurora
first light
daybreak
break of day
break of the day
dayspring
sunrise
sunup
cockcrow a | the first light of day, we got up before dawn, they talked until morning |
pause
intermission
break
interruption
suspension | a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something |
| make | act in a certain way so as to acquire, make friends, make enemies |
relax unstrain
unlax loosen up unwind make relaxed | cause to feel relaxed, A hot bath always relaxes me |
break up
crack up | laugh unrestrainedly |
| break | weaken or destroy in spirit or body, His resistance was broken, a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death |
break down
collapse | collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack |
grimace
make a face
pull a face | contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state, He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do |
| make up | apply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier, She makes herself up every morning |
f make urinate
piddle
puddle
micturate
piss
pee
pee-pee
make water
relieve oneself
take a leak
spend a penny
wee
wee-wee
pass water | eliminate urine, Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug |
stool
defecate
shit
take a shit
take a crap
ca-ca
crap
make | have a bowel movement, The dog had made in the flower beds |
fart
break wind | expel intestinal gases through the anus |
| make | behave in a certain way, make merry |
| make as if | begin or appear to begin an action, He made as if to shake my hand |
| break b | diminish or discontinue abruptly, The patient's fever broke last night |
fracture
break | fracture a bone of, I broke my foot while playing hockey |