- 4. Become bankrupt.
- 5. Decline, lose health or strength.
Break, n.
- 1. Breach, opening, gap, fissure, rent, rift, chasm, rupture, fracture.
- 2. Interruption, pause, cæsura.
- 3. Dawn, dawning.
Break away.
- 1. Escape (against resistance), break loose.
- 2. Be scattered, be dissipated.
Break-bone fever. Dengue, dandy-fever.
Break bulk. Begin to unload.
Break down. (Active.) Crush, overwhelm, overcome.
Break down. (Neuter.) Fail, give out.
Breakdown, n. Crash, fall, ruin, downfall, failure, collapse.
Breaker, n. Rock-broken surge.
Break faith, Be faithless, be perfidious, falsify one’s word.
Break forth. Issue, burst out, break out.
Break ground. Begin, commence operations.
Break in.
- 1. Make an irruption.
- 2. Intrude one’s self, take up the discourse begin to speak, interrupt.
Breaking, n. Rupture, fracture.
Break jail. Escape from jail.
Break of day. Dawn, dawning, daybreak, morning, cockcrowing, dayspring, peep of day, prime of day, first blush of the morning. See morn.