Synonyms for Break

"She interrupted her pregnancy" "break a lucky streak" "break the cycle of poverty"

"The figurine broke" "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"

"You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!"

"He busted my radio!"

"He broke the glass plate" "She broke the match"

"offend all laws of humanity" "violate the basic laws or human civilization" "break a law" "break a promise"

"The horses broke from the stable" "Three inmates broke jail" "Nobody can break out--this prison is high security"

"The clouds broke after the heavy downpour"

"break into tears" "erupt in anger"

"stop the project" "break off the negotiations"

"Someone broke in while I was on vacation" "They broke into my car and stole my radio!" "who broke into my account last night?"

"The horse was tough to break" "I broke in the new intern"

"This sentence violates the rules of syntax"

"She bettered her own record" "break a record"

"The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold" "The actress won't reveal how old she is" "bring out the truth" "he broke the news to her" "unwrap the evidence in the murder case"

"light broke over the horizon" "Voices broke in the air"

"The engine finally went" "The car died on the road" "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town" "The coffee maker broke" "The engine failed on the way to town" "her eyesight went after the accident"

"She had broken with the traditional patterns"

"The ranks broke"

"The surf broke"

"soften a shock" "break a fall"

"If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress"

"The heat wave finally broke yesterday"

"The flat plain was broken by tall mesas"

"She finally broke herself of smoking cigarettes"

"break cigarette smoking"

"The first winter storm broke over New York"

"Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months"

"His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage" "This play will either make or break the playwright"

"The will was broken"

"The business partners broke over a tax question" "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage" "My friend and I split up"

"She was demoted because she always speaks up" "He was broken down to Sergeant"

"My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!" "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"

"The whales broke"

"The wall collapsed" "The business collapsed" "The dam broke" "The roof collapsed" "The wall gave in" "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"

"Kids were break-dancing at the street corner"

"I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy"

"The book dealer would not break the set"

"The referee broke the boxers"

"The lawn mower finally broke" "The gears wore out" "The old chair finally fell apart completely"

"break a branch from a tree"

"The skin broke"

"The blade broke her skin"

"News of her death broke in the morning"

"We pause for station identification" "let's break for lunch"

"break a circuit"

"The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages"

"break an alibi" "break down a proof"

"break the code"

"Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children"

"Report the news as it develops" "These political movements recrudesce from time to time"

"The glass cracked when it was heated"

"his voice is breaking--he should no longer sing in the choir"

"stock prices broke"

"I broke my foot while playing hockey"

"The patient's fever broke last night"

"His resistance was broken" "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death"

"the telephone is an annoying interruption" "there was a break in the action when a player was hurt"

"he finally got his big break"

"they built it right over a geological fault" "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust"

"they hoped to avoid a break in relations"

"we took a 10-minute break" "he took time out to recuperate"

"the breakage was unavoidable"

"it was a nasty fracture" "the break seems to have been caused by a fall"

"the break in the dam threatened the valley"

"then there was a break in her voice"

"he was up two breaks in the second set"

"it was presented without commercial breaks" "there was a gap in his account"

"he made a break for the open door"

"the break in the eighth frame cost him the match"

"the breakout was carefully planned"