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noun
- The act of alienating.
- the action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly
- The state of being alienated.
- separation resulting from hostility
- the feeling of being alienated from other people
- (theater) Verfremdungseffekt.
- Emotional isolation or dissociation.
- (Marxism) The estrangement of people from aspects of their human nature as a consequence of the division of labour and living in a society of stratified social classes.
- (property law) The transfer of property to another person.
- (law) the voluntary and absolute transfer of title and possession of real property from one person to another
adj
verb
- abandon one's beliefs or allegiances
- be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
- (intransitive) To change sides or affiliation; to apostatize.
- (intransitive, rare) To flee by turning one's back.
- (intransitive) To evade, to equivocate using subterfuge; to obfuscate in a deliberate manner.
verb
- (intransitive) To withdraw from one’s native country.
- (transitive) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
- (intransitive) To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.
- expel from a country
- move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad
adj
noun
adj
- Not subject to being alienated, that is, surrendered, taken away, or transferred to another.
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to a noun belonging to a special class in which the possessive construction differs from the norm, especially for particular familial relationships and body parts, regarding permanence.
- not subject to forfeiture
- incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another
adj
noun
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
- (law) To flee one's country and seek asylum.
- (military) To join the enemy army.
- (military) To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
- desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
noun
- The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
- A fault or malfunction.
- (mathematics) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
- a failing or deficiency
- a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)
- an imperfection in a bodily system
- an imperfection in an object or machine
noun
- The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
- The self-surrender to an outside influence.
- withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility
- An abandoned building or structure.
- The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.
- Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions.
- The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.
- (law) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author.
- A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
- (law) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
- the act of giving something up
- the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away
noun
- An ouster; dispossession.
- (military, firearms) The fourth circle on a target, outside the inner and magpie.
- Someone who admits to something publicly.
- An outer part.
- (sports) An uncovered section of the seating at a stadium or sportsground.
- (UK politics) One who supports leaving the European Union.
- Someone who outs another.
- A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
- (retail) The smallest single unit sold by wholesalers to retailers, usually one retail display box.
- One who puts out, ousts, or expels.
adj
noun
- a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)
- a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener
- a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length
- a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
- a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech
- the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key
- the act of moving with great haste
- (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
- (military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
- A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt. (See thunderbolt.)
- A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
- A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
- (US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
- A burst of speed or efficiency.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
- A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
- A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
- An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
- A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
- A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
- A sudden event, action or emotion.
- A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
adv
verb
- eat hastily without proper chewing
- make or roll into bolts
- leave suddenly and as if in a hurry
- secure or lock with a bolt
- run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
- move or jump suddenly
- swallow hastily
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- (intransitive, botany, of lettuce, spinach, garlic, onion, etc) To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
- (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.
- (transitive, figurative) To affix in a crude or unnatural manner.
- (transitive) To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
- (intransitive) To escape.
- To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- (transitive) To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
- (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
- (transitive) To swallow food without chewing it.
- (US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
noun
- One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
- Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
- A citizen or national of another sovereign state.
- A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
- (sometimes derogatory) A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.
- a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
- anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
- a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere
adj
- Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
- Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
- Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.
- not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something
- being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
verb
verb
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, 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.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming 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.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (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.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (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.
noun
- Persistent attachment or loyalty.
- The ability of a substance to stick to an unlike substance.
- (biochemistry) The binding of a cell to a surface or substrate.
- The frictional grip on a surface, of wheels, shoes etc.
- An agreement to adhere.
- (medicine) An abnormal union of surface by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.
- a fibrous band of scar tissue that binds together normally separate anatomical structures
- the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition
- abnormal union of bodily tissues; most common in the abdomen
- faithful support for a cause or political party or religion
verb
- To expel, reject, or renounce.
- To fling away.
- To deduct from a price in order to compensate for problems.
- (backgammon) Synonym of bear off.
- (slang, Australia) To insult or verbally abuse (someone).
- To give forth in an unpremeditated manner.
- (informal, transitive) To remove (clothing) haphazardly and tossing it on the floor.
- (idiomatic) To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.
- To split off.
- (transitive) Of a horse, to eject its rider.
- (idiomatic) To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew.
- to remove
- get rid of
noun
noun
- the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)
- The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.
- coming apart
- (Alaska, northern Canada) The season during which winter ice covering bodies of water disintegrates; more generally, spring.
- A loss of emotional control; a breakdown.
- The termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship.
noun
- the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)
- the process of going into solution
- dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
- separation into component parts
- the termination of a meeting
- The quality of being dissolute.
- The termination of an organized body or legislative assembly, especially a formal dismissal.
- Dissolving, or going into solution.
- Disintegration, or decomposition into fragments.
noun
- The act of alienating.
- the action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly
- The state of being alienated.
- separation resulting from hostility
- the feeling of being alienated from other people
- (theater) Verfremdungseffekt.
- Emotional isolation or dissociation.
- (Marxism) The estrangement of people from aspects of their human nature as a consequence of the division of labour and living in a society of stratified social classes.
- (property law) The transfer of property to another person.
- (law) the voluntary and absolute transfer of title and possession of real property from one person to another
noun
- The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
- The self-surrender to an outside influence.
- withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility
- An abandoned building or structure.
- The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.
- Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions.
- The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.
- (law) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author.
- A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
- (law) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
- the act of giving something up
- the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away
noun
- An ouster; dispossession.
- (military, firearms) The fourth circle on a target, outside the inner and magpie.
- Someone who admits to something publicly.
- An outer part.
- (sports) An uncovered section of the seating at a stadium or sportsground.
- (UK politics) One who supports leaving the European Union.
- Someone who outs another.
- A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
- (retail) The smallest single unit sold by wholesalers to retailers, usually one retail display box.
- One who puts out, ousts, or expels.
adj
noun
- a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)
- a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener
- a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length
- a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
- a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech
- the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key
- the act of moving with great haste
- (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
- (military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
- A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt. (See thunderbolt.)
- A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
- A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
- (US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
- A burst of speed or efficiency.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
- A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
- A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
- An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
- A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
- A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
- A sudden event, action or emotion.
- A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
adv
verb
- eat hastily without proper chewing
- make or roll into bolts
- leave suddenly and as if in a hurry
- secure or lock with a bolt
- run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
- move or jump suddenly
- swallow hastily
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- (intransitive, botany, of lettuce, spinach, garlic, onion, etc) To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
- (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.
- (transitive, figurative) To affix in a crude or unnatural manner.
- (transitive) To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
- (intransitive) To escape.
- To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- (transitive) To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
- (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
- (transitive) To swallow food without chewing it.
- (US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
noun
- One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
- Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
- A citizen or national of another sovereign state.
- A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
- (sometimes derogatory) A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.
- a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
- anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
- a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere
adj
- Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
- Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
- Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.
- not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something
- being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
verb
noun
- Persistent attachment or loyalty.
- The ability of a substance to stick to an unlike substance.
- (biochemistry) The binding of a cell to a surface or substrate.
- The frictional grip on a surface, of wheels, shoes etc.
- An agreement to adhere.
- (medicine) An abnormal union of surface by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.
- a fibrous band of scar tissue that binds together normally separate anatomical structures
- the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition
- abnormal union of bodily tissues; most common in the abdomen
- faithful support for a cause or political party or religion
noun
- the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)
- The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.
- coming apart
- (Alaska, northern Canada) The season during which winter ice covering bodies of water disintegrates; more generally, spring.
- A loss of emotional control; a breakdown.
- The termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship.
noun
- the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)
- the process of going into solution
- dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
- separation into component parts
- the termination of a meeting
- The quality of being dissolute.
- The termination of an organized body or legislative assembly, especially a formal dismissal.
- Dissolving, or going into solution.
- Disintegration, or decomposition into fragments.
verb
- abandon one's beliefs or allegiances
- be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
- (intransitive) To change sides or affiliation; to apostatize.
- (intransitive, rare) To flee by turning one's back.
- (intransitive) To evade, to equivocate using subterfuge; to obfuscate in a deliberate manner.
verb
- (intransitive) To withdraw from one’s native country.
- (transitive) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
- (intransitive) To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.
- expel from a country
- move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
- (law) To flee one's country and seek asylum.
- (military) To join the enemy army.
- (military) To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
- desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
noun
- The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
- A fault or malfunction.
- (mathematics) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
- a failing or deficiency
- a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)
- an imperfection in a bodily system
- an imperfection in an object or machine
verb
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, 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.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming 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.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (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.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (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.
verb
- To expel, reject, or renounce.
- To fling away.
- To deduct from a price in order to compensate for problems.
- (backgammon) Synonym of bear off.
- (slang, Australia) To insult or verbally abuse (someone).
- To give forth in an unpremeditated manner.
- (informal, transitive) To remove (clothing) haphazardly and tossing it on the floor.
- (idiomatic) To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.
- To split off.
- (transitive) Of a horse, to eject its rider.
- (idiomatic) To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew.
- to remove
- get rid of
noun
adj
adj
- Not subject to being alienated, that is, surrendered, taken away, or transferred to another.
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to a noun belonging to a special class in which the possessive construction differs from the norm, especially for particular familial relationships and body parts, regarding permanence.
- not subject to forfeiture
- incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another