Break /breɪk (broke, breaking)

broke | broken

DAMAGE (I or T)

 The dish fell to the floor and broke.

 Charles is always breaking things.

END (I or T)

 Eventually someone spoke, breaking the silence.

 She laughed and that broke the tension.

INTERRUPT (T )

 We usually break for lunch at 12.30.

 I needed something to break the monotony of my typing job.

SKIN LAW/PROMISE

STOP WORKING The dog bit me but I had broken the law and
didn't break the skin. deserved to be punished.
to stop working as a
result of being
damaged; to damage
something and stop it
IN TENNIS
from working

Break Williams broke her

opponent's serve five times.

STOP FOR SHORT

TIME END SOMETHING

DESTROY, BE
break for DESTROYED
something Let's She broke the
break for lunch. silence by The government was
coughing. determined to break the
power of the trade unions.