BREAK


Meaning of BREAK in English

I. verb

1.

Synonyms: give 12, bend, cave, collapse, crumple, fold up, go, yield

2.

Synonyms: plow , plow up, turn, turn over

3.

Synonyms: violate 1, breach, contravene, infract, infringe, offend, transgress

Antonyms: observe

4.

Synonyms: escape 1, abscond, ||bunk, decamp, flee, fly, scape

5.

Synonyms: fail 5, bust, crash, fold

Idioms: go broke

6.

Synonyms: ruin 3, bankrupt, bust, fold up, impoverish, pauper, pauperize

7.

Synonyms: degrade 1, bump, bust, declass, demerit, demote, disgrade, disrate, downgrade, reduce

8.

Synonyms: disprove 1, confound, confute, controvert, disconfirm, evert, rebut, refute

9.

Synonyms: communicate 1, convey, impart, pass on, transmit

10.

Synonyms: solve 2, ||cipher, clear up, decipher, dissolve, puzzle out, resolve, unfold, unravel, unriddle

11.

Synonyms: decode , crack, cryptanalyze, decipher, decrypt

12.

Synonyms: happen 1, befall, betide, chance, come off, develop, fall out, go, occur, transpire

13.

Synonyms: get out 2, come out, leak, out, transpire

|| 14.

Synonyms: clear 9, burn off

II. noun

1.

Synonyms: gap 1, breach, discontinuity, hole, opening

2.

Synonyms: gap 3, breach, hiatus, interim, interruption, interval, lacuna

3.

Synonyms: interlude , intermission, interregnum, interval, parenthesis

4.

a usually short rest period

took a break for coffee

Synonyms: blow, breath, breather, breathing space ( or spell), respite, ten; compare pause

5.

Synonyms: breach 3, fissure, fracture, rent, rift, rupture, schism, split

6.

Synonyms: faux pas , blooper, boner, ||boo-boo, gaffe, impropriety, indecorum, solecism

7.

Synonyms: opportunity , chance, look-in, occasion, opening, shot, show, squeak, time

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