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- hated telling her that I had broken her favorite glass vase
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- doctor,
- fix,
- heal,
- mend,
- patch,
- rebuild,
- recondition,
- reconstruct,
- renovate,
- repair
- the final vote broke the deadlock
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- the captain was broken to lieutenant commander for disobeying a direct order from his group commander
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- Alan Turing and the Bletchley Park mathematicians broke the Enigma code being used by the Nazis
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- she broke from her ruminations to find that it was already dinnertime
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- had to confess that he had broken his promise not to share their conversation with anyone
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- Professor Bates broke the problem when she realized that it was possible to synthesize the necessary compounds
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- I broke a tooth on the hard candy
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- doctor,
- fix,
- mend,
- patch,
- rebuild,
- recondition,
- reconstruct,
- renovate,
- repair,
- revamp
- after working for 30 years, the pump simply broke one day
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- break down,
- conk (out),
- crash,
- cut out,
- die,
- fail,
- give out,
- stall
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- the herd of gazelles broke when they saw the lions racing toward them from the ridge above
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- the trek up the mountain just about broke me
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- as soon as the scandal broke, the CEO fled the country
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- the crisis had passed, and a new day was breaking
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- the running back broke to his left before running out of bounds
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- distressing economic news that will break many energy stocks
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- a menu with prices that is likely to break the budgets of all but the wealthiest of diners
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nounSynonyms & Antonyms of break (Entry 2 of 2)
- there was a brief break after the first movement as the doors to the concert hall were opened and the latecomers were allowed in
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- most of the students at the boarding school are going home for Christmas break
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- the rancher repaired the break in the fence where the horse had gotten through
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- breach,
- discontinuity,
- gap,
- gulf,
- hiatus,
- hole,
- interstice,
- interval,
- opening,
- rent,
- rift,
- separation,
- void
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- a guy who just seems to get all the breaks in life
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- a desperate break from that hellhole
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“Break.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/break. Accessed 18 Aug. 2022.
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The first known use of break was before the 12th century
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