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The act of breaking something
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An act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
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A sudden dash
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The opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
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An escape from jail
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A pause from doing something (as work)
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Any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
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(tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
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Some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
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An unexpected piece of good luck
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The occurrence of breaking
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A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
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An abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
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(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
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Breaking of hard tissue such as bone
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A time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
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Fracture a bone of
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Weaken or destroy in spirit or body
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Diminish or discontinue abruptly
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Become separated into pieces or fragments
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Happen
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Prevent completion
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Terminate
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Come into being
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Stop operating or functioning
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Render inoperable or ineffective
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Crack; of the male voice in puberty
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Fall sharply
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Lessen in force or effect
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Destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
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Make submissive, obedient, or useful
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Be broken in
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Change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
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Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
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Find the solution or key to
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Find a flaw in
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Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
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Cease an action temporarily
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Be released or become known; of news
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Undergo breaking
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Interrupt the flow of current in
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Surpass in excellence
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Go to pieces
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Ruin completely
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Separate from a clinch, in boxing
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Break a piece from a whole
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Pierce or penetrate
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Destroy the completeness of a set of related items
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Exchange for smaller units of money
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Become punctured or penetrated
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Make the opening shot that scatters the balls
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Force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
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Do a break dance
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Curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
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Move away or escape suddenly
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Scatter or part
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Emerge from the surface of a body of water
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Make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
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Break down, literally or metaphorically
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Change directions suddenly
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Reduce to bankruptcy
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Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
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Interrupt a continued activity
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Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
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Cause the failure or ruin of
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Invalidate by judicial action
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Enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
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Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
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Happen or take place
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Fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
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Give up
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Cause to give up a habit
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Vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
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Come forth or begin from a state of latency
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Come to an end