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(seperate) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.

To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.

(pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.

To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.

# To use a high-value denomination of currency, thus necessitating being given change in smaller denominations.

To change the orderliness or compactness of an arrangement.

To disrupt the surface of and turn over the body of a substance.

To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.

To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.

To turn an animal into a beast of burden.

To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.

To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.

To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.

(passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.

To end (something) as a meaningful force.

(tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.

(backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).

To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.

To end (a connection); to disconnect.

To ruin financially; to harm.

(theatre) To end the run of (a play).

Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.

To violate a contract or end the applicability of a will.

To end the continuity or consistency of something.

(obsolete) To fail in business; to go broke, to become bankrupt.

(archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.

To change a steady state abruptly.

To disrupt a surface.

To make by forcing one's way through.

To force one's way through.

(dated) To escape.

To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.

(with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.

To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.

(of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water. [[Image:A storm at Pors-Loubous.jpg|right|thumb|196px|A wave breaking.]]

To solve a code or case.

To end a fever.

# (of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.

# To successfully treat or resist (a fever).

(weather) To end.

(storm) To begin or end.

(of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.

(sports) To counter-attack.

(ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.

(computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.

To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.

(violate) To violate; to fail to adhere to.

(slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.

To prove a falsity.

To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar; to rupture; to render a barrier ineffective.

# (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.

# (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination{{,}} or the like.

To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.

# (programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.

To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something or by being place such that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.

To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.

# (golf) To do better than a specified value.

# (American football) To get past defenders, resulting in a specified run.

(computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.

(programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.

(informal) To suddenly become.

(of a liquid) To lose a texture.

# (of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.

# (of whipped cream, egg whites, etc.) To become overwhipped and thus lose its texture.

(of a sound) To become audible suddenly.

(of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.

(of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.

To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.

(obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.

(firearms) To open a break-action breechloader.

An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces. +

A physical space that opens up in something or between two things. +

An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with something.

(Rest) (rest or pause, usually from work) A rest or pause, usually from work. +

(education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.

A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.

A short holiday. +

A temporary split with a romantic partner.

An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.

(change) A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.

(finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.

The beginning (of the morning). +

An act of escaping.

(computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.

(computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.

(programming) (breakpoint).

(weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.

(games):

(tennis) (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).

(pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.

(snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.

(soccer) The counter-attack.

(golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.

(surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).

(horse racing) The start of a horse race.

The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.

(dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.

(cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses)

(equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.

(music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.

(music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.

(music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.

(in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., {{w|Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument}}, US).

(slang) An error.

(clothing) A crease or fold arising where the pants leg reaches the shoe.

(music) (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.

(slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.

(mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.