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break
Synonyms and Antonyms of break
- The band came back on stage after a short break.
- Most of the students at the boarding school are going home for winter break.
- The rancher repaired the break in the fence where the horse had gotten through.
breach, discontinuity, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, interstice, interval, opening, rent, rift, separation, void
- a guy who just seems to get all the breaks in life
stroke of luck
- a desperate break from prison
break
Synonyms and Antonyms of break
- I hated telling her that I had broken her favorite glass vase.
doctor, fix, heal, mend, patch, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, renovate, repair
- The final vote broke the deadlock.
have done with, put the kibosh on
- The captain was broken to lieutenant commander for disobeying a direct order from his group commander.
- Alan Turing and the Bletchley Park mathematicians broke the Enigma code being used by the Nazis.
- She broke from her ruminations to find that it was already dinnertime.
catch one's breath, hold one's horses
- had broken his promise not to share their conversation with anyone
defer (to), serve, submit (to), surrender (to), yield (to)
attend, hear, heed, listen (to), mark, note, notice, regard, watch
- Professor Bates broke the problem when she realized that it was possible to synthesize the necessary compounds.
- I broke a tooth on the hard candy
deteriorate, enervate, enfeeble, undermine, weaken
erode, scour, wash out, wear (away)
disable, hamstring, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, torment, torture
annihilate, bang up, bash, batter, clobber, crush, dash, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, do in, pulverize, raze, ruin, scourge, shatter, smash, tear down, total, waste, wipe out, wreck
doctor, fix, mend, patch, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, renovate, repair, revamp
- After working for 30 years, the pump simply broke one day.
break down, conk (out), crash, cut out, die, fail, give out, stall
- The herd of gazelles broke when they saw the lions racing toward them from the ridge above.
beat a retreat, beat it, make tracks, turn tail
- The trek up the mountain just about broke me.
wear to a frazzle
- The story broke just yesterday.
- The crisis had passed, and a new day was breaking.
- The running back broke to his left before running out of bounds.
- distressing economic news that will break many energy stocks
- The temperature tomorrow might break the previous record.
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