break

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(noun): An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
(noun): A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
(noun): A rest or pause, usually from work.
(noun): A time for students to talk or play.
(noun): A short holiday.
(noun): A temporary split with a romantic partner.
(noun): An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
(noun): A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
(noun): The beginning (of the morning).
(noun): An act of escaping.
(noun): The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
(noun): A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
(noun): A point or condition in a program at which operation may be suspended during debugging so that the state of the program at that point can be investigated. A breakpoint.
(noun): A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
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(noun): A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.
(noun): (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
(noun): A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
(noun): 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): Usu. plural An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
(verb): To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
(verb): To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
(verb): To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
(verb): To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
(verb): To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
(verb): To ruin financially.
(verb): To violate, to not adhere to.
(verb): (of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, in terms of temperature.
(verb): (of a spell of settled weather) To end.
(verb): (of a storm) To begin; to end.
(verb): (of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
(verb): 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.
(verb): To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
(verb): To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
(verb): To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
(verb): (of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
(verb): To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
(verb): To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
(verb): To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
(verb): To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
(verb): (of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
(verb): To change a steady state abruptly.
(verb): To suddenly become.
(verb): Of a male voice, to become deeper at puberty.
(verb): 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.
(verb): To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
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(verb): (most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
(verb): To end (a connection), to disconnect.
(verb): (of an emulsion) To demulsify.
(verb): To counter-attack
(verb): To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
(verb): To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
(verb): To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
(verb): To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
(verb): To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
(verb): To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
(verb): To fall out; to terminate friendship.
(verb): To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
(verb): To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.

The femur has a clean break and so should heal easily.
He waited minutes for a break in the traffic to cross the highway.
Let’s take a five-minute break.
a weekend break on the Isle of Wight
I think we need a break.