- broke, bust, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke - lacking funds; "`skint' is a British slang term"
Antonym: rich (indirect, via poor)
- interrupt, break - terminate; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty"
--1 is one way to end, terminate
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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart - become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
--2 is one way to change integrity
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun break3, noun break9, noun break6
The wooden sticks break
These glasses break easily
- break - destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments; "He broke the glass plate"; "She broke the match"
--3 is one way to separate, divide
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun break6, noun breakage3, noun breaker1
The girls break the wooden sticks
- break - render inoperable or ineffective; "You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!"
--4 is one way to damage
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun breakage3
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- break, bust - ruin completely; "He busted my radio!"
--5 is one way to destroy, ruin
Antonyms: repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun breakage3
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against, breach, break - act in disregard of laws and rules; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"
--6 is one way to disrespect
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Somebody ----s something
- break, break out, break away - move away or escape suddenly; "The horses broke from the stable"; "Three inmates broke jail"; "Nobody can break out--this prison is high security"
--7 is one way to escape, get away, break loose
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun break15
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
=> Somebody ----s something
- break - scatter or part; "The clouds broke after the heavy downpour"
--8 is one way to disperse, dissipate, scatter, spread out
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Something ----s
- break, burst, erupt - force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up; "break into tears"; "erupt in anger"
--9 is one way to express emotion, express feelings
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Somebody ----s PP
- break, break off, discontinue, stop - prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negociations"
--10 is one way to end, terminate
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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- break in, break - enter someone's property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act; "Someone broke in while I was on vacation"; "They broke into my car and stole my radio!"
--11 is one way to trespass, intrude
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Somebody ----s something
=> Somebody ----s PP
- break in, break - make submissive, obedient, or useful; "The horse was tough to break"; "I broke in the new intern"
--12 is one way to domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- violate, go against, break - fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns; "This sentence violates the rules of syntax"
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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- better, break - surpass in excellence; "She bettered her own record"; "break a record"
--14 is one way to surpass, outstrip, outmatch, outgo, exceed, outdo, surmount, outperform
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Somebody ----s something
- disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, impart, break, give away, let out - make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"
--15 is one way to tell
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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- break - come into being; "light broke over the horizon"; "Voices broke in the air"
--16 is one way to become, go, get
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Something ----s
- fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down - stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"
--17 is one way to change
Sample sentence:
These cars won't break
- break, break away - interrupt a continued activity; "She had broken with the traditional patterns"
--18 is one way to separate, part, split up, split, break, break up
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun break7
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- break - make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing; "The ranks broke"
--19 is one way to flee, fly, take flight
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Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- break - curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves; "The surf broke"
--20 is one way to collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun breaker2
Something ----s
- dampen, damp, soften, weaken, break - lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall"
--21 is one way to deaden, blunt
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Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- break - be broken in; "If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress"
--22 is one way to change
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Somebody ----s
- break - come to an end; "The heat wave finally broke yesterday"
--23 is one way to end, stop, finish, terminate, cease
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Something ----s
- break - vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity; "The flat plain was broken by tall mesas"
--24 is one way to change, alter, vary
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun break1
Something ----s something
- break - cause to give up a habit; "She finally broke herself of smoking cigarettes"
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Somebody ----s somebody
- break - give up; "break cigarette smoking"
--26 is one way to discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off
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Somebody ----s something
- break - come forth or begin from a state of latency; "The first winter storm broke over New York"
--27 is one way to come forth, emerge
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Something is ----ing PP
- break - happen or take place; "Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months"
--28 is one way to happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place
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Something ----s
- break - cause the failure or ruin of; "His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage"; "This play will either make or break the playwright"
--29 is one way to ruin
Antonyms: make
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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- break - invalidate by judicial action; "The will was broken"
--30 is one way to invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid, nullify
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Somebody ----s something
- separate, part, split up, split, break, break up - discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun break4
Somebody ----s
- demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs - assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sargeant"
--32 is one way to delegate, designate, depute, assign
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Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something PP
- bankrupt, ruin, break, smash - reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"
--33 is one way to impoverish
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Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- break - change directions suddenly
--34 is one way to switch, shift, change
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Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- break - emerge from the surface of a body of water; "The whales broke"
--35 is one way to appear
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Something ----s
- collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder - break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"
--36 is one way to change
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Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- break dance, break-dance, break - do a break dance; "Kids were break-dancing at the street corner"
--37 is one way to dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue break
- break - exchange for smaller units of money; "I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy"
--38 is one way to change, exchange, commute, convert
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Somebody ----s something
- break, break up - destroy the completeness of a set of related items; "The book dealer would not break the set"
--39 is one way to change, alter, modify
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Somebody ----s something
- break - make the opening shot that scatters the balls
--40 is one way to shoot
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun break10
Somebody ----s
- break - separate from a clinch, in boxing; "The referee broke the boxers"
--41 is one way to separate, disunite, divide, part
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Somebody ----s somebody
- break, wear, wear out, bust, fall apart - go to pieces; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely"
--42 is one way to decay, crumble, delapidate
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Something ----s
- break, break off, snap off - break a piece from a whole; "break a branch from a tree"
--43 is one way to detach
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun breakage3, noun breaker1
Somebody ----s something
- break - become punctured or penetrated; "The skin broke"
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Something ----s
- break - pierce or penetrate; "The blade broke her skin"
--45 is one way to penetrate, perforate
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Something ----s something
- break, get out, get around - be released or become known; of news; "News of her death broke in the morning"
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Something ----s
- pause, intermit, break - cease an action temporarily; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch"
--47 is one way to interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun break5
Somebody ----s
- break - interrupt the flow of current in; "break a circuit"
--48 is one way to interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun breaker3
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- break - undergo breaking; "The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages"
--49 is one way to diphthongize, diphthongise
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Something ----s
- break - find a flaw in; "break an alibi"; "break down a proof"
--50 is one way to destroy, ruin
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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- break - find the solution or key to; "break the code"
--51 is one way to solve, work out, figure out, puzzle out, lick, work
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Somebody ----s something
- break - change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another; "Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children"
--52 is one way to switch, shift, change
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Something ----s
- break, recrudesce, develop - happen; "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time"
--53 is one way to happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place
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Something ----s
- crack, check, break - become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated"
--54 is one way to change
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun break8
Something ----s
- break - of the male voice in puberty; "his voice is breaking--he should no longer sing in the choir"
--55 is one way to change state, turn
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Something ----s
- break - fall sharply; "stock prices broke"
--56 is one way to decrease, diminish, lessen, fall
Sample sentence:
The stock market is going to break
- fracture, break - fracture a bone of; "I broke my foot while playing hockey"
--57 is one way to injure, wound
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun break8
Did he break his foot?
- break - diminish or discontinue abruptly; "The patient's fever broke last night"
--58 is one way to decrease, diminish, lessen, fall
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Something ----s
- break - weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death"
--59 is one way to weaken
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Something ----s somebody
- break, burst, erupt - force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up; "break into tears"; "erupt in anger"