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English to English noun
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a failure to perform some promised act or obligation | source: wordnet30
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an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification) | source: wordnet30
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a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) |
• they hoped to avoid a break in relations
source: wordnet30
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The act of breaking, in a figurative sense. | source: webster1913 verb
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act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises |
• offend all laws of humanity
• violate the basic laws or human civilization
• break a law
• break a promise
source: wordnet30
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make an opening or gap in | source: wordnet30
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To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city. | source: webster1913
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To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale. | source: webster1913
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