break verb (DAMAGE)
break off I picked it up and the handle broke off.
Charles is always breaking things.
She fell and broke her arm (= broke the bone in her arm).
- breakI didn't mean to break your phone.
- fractureLast year he fractured his skull.
- bustOne of the children has bust the computer.
- shatterThe ball hit the window and shattered it.
- smashI dropped the vase and it smashed.
- snapShe bent the ruler and it snapped.
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- hurtI hurt my arm climbing over the fence.
- injureThe bomb killed ten people and injured many more.
- woundHe was wounded so badly in the attack that doctors said he might never walk again.
- maimThe atrocities have killed or maimed thousands of people.
- tortureThe guards were accused of torturing prisoners.
- stabHe was fatally stabbed with a kitchen knife.
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break verb (END)
break verb (NOT OBEY)
She broke her promise/word to me (= did not do what she promised she would).
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break verb (DIVIDE)
break verb (INTERRUPT)
We usually break for lunch at 12.30.
break verb (USE FORCE)
break verb (EMOTION)
break verb (BECOME KNOWN)
break verb (WAVES)
break verb (WEATHER)
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break verb (STORM)
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break verb (DAY)
break verb (VOICE)
His voice broke when he was 13.
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break verb (TENNIS)
break (serve)
Nadal broke Čilić's serve in the second set.
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break verb (TEAM BALL SPORTS)
break verb (POOL/SNOOKER)
Whose turn is it to break?
break verb (BALL)
break verb (HORSE)
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break noun (INTERRUPTION)
Finally there was a break in the rain and we went out.
I'll make us a cup of tea in the next break.
[ U ] mainly UK (also break time)
We were talking about it at break.
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break noun (OPPORTUNITY)
- chanceI didn't get a chance to say goodbye.
- opportunityEveryone will get the opportunity to comment.
- breakHer big break came when she was offered a role in a Spielberg movie.
- springboardHe hoped writing an opinion piece for The Times would be the springboard he needed to get into journalism.
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break noun (WHAT HAPPENS)
the breaks
informal
the way that things happen, usually when this is bad for you but you cannot do anything to change it:
them's the breaks non-standard I was born a year too late to qualify, but them's the breaks.
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break noun (DAMAGE)
There's a break in the pipe.
- injuryHe was treated for minor injuries.
- woundMost of the casualties had gunshot wounds.
- cutHe walked away from the car crash with only cuts and bruises.
- gashHe was bleeding profusely from a deep gash in his leg.
- scratchShe had little scratches all over her arms.
- lacerationA doctor's report said the laceration had cut the jugular vein.
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break noun (END)
make a break (also make the break)
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break noun (TENNIS)
Murray must get another break to win.
break noun (POOL/SNOOKER)
break noun (TEAM BALL SPORTS)
break noun (ESCAPE)
break noun (MORNING)
break of day/dawn [ U ] literary
at break of day We set out at break of day.
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break | Từ điển Anh Mỹ
break verb (DAMAGE)
[ I/T ] past tense broke us/broʊk/ | past participle broken us/ˈbroʊ·kən/
[ I ] Our toaster broke, so we have to get a new one.
[ I/T ] past tense broke us/broʊk/ | past participle broken us/ˈbroʊ·kən/
[ I/T ] past tense broke us/broʊk/ | past participle broken us/ˈbroʊ·kən/
[ T ] Can you break a $50 bill for me?
break verb (INTERRUPT)
[ I/T ] past tense broke us/broʊk/ | past participle broken us/ˈbroʊ·kən/
break verb (END)
[ I/T ] past tense broke us/broʊk/ | past participle broken us/ˈbroʊ·kən/
break verb (SEPARATE)
[ I/T ] past tense broke us/broʊk/ | past participle broken us/ˈbroʊ·kən/
break verb (NOT OBEY)
[ T ] past tense broke us/broʊk/ | past participle broken us/ˈbroʊ·kən/
He didn’t know he was breaking the law.
break verb (MAKE KNOWN)
[ I/T ] past tense broke us/broʊk/ | past participle broken us/ˈbroʊ·kən/
break verb (MOVE)
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break noun (OPPORTUNITY)
Getting that first job was a lucky break.
break noun (DAMAGED PLACE)
break noun (INTERRUPTION)
break noun (EARLY MORNING)
We set out at the break of day.
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break | Tiếng Anh Thương Mại
to do something that is against a law, or not do something that you should do or have promised to do:
break the law He didn't know he was breaking the law when he gave her the information.
Can you break a twenty for me, please?
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have/take a break We'll work through till lunch but take a short break at 11 o'clock.
We'll be right back after the break.
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Các ví dụ của break
break
To the extent that conversations are implicitly expected or planned to co-occur with dinners, coffee breaks, or other scheduled activities, they are also temporally constrained.
The data were collected at home parties, lunchtime breaks, and other private venues.
There have been reports of some localised fumarole activity during the past 100 years, and a new lava flow broke out only 20 years ago.
By the end of the century, however, a few women had managed to break the ranks of male professionalism and attain medical degrees.
Three independent branches can be seen: degeneracy has been removed by breaking symmetry through displacement of one of the jets.
Rather, material structure is progressively broken up by increasing shear stresses.
Participants took a break between the two conditions and then completed the other modality, starting again with six new training items.
The fracture pattern of this lithology tends to lead to break up of the cores.
Verbal collaboration also emerged when musical communication was suspended or broke down.
They typically occur at the ends of meetings, often as people are walking out of a room, and even during social breaks.
The voices adopt the rhythm given by the percussion section, and sentences are rendered mechanical by being broken into short pieces.
An innovation that can be broken down or tried out on a partial basis also increases the probability of use and adoption5.
Local relief is characterized by low altitude sedimentary plateaux (chapadas), which are broken by a network of peripheral or intermontane depressions.
The line breaks in the orthographic version may represent places to pause, but they may also represent something else: a point of reflection or intensification.
In the presence of external effects, the duality between these coefficients is broken and local indeterminacy may appear.
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Các cụm từ với break
Các từ thường được sử dụng cùng với break.
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brief break
Participants were allowed a brief break and were provided with water to drink between blocks.
clean break
Or, does the oratorio represent a clean break with the 'didactic' past?
decisive break
This accessibility entailed a decisive break with the entrenched elitist and esoteric tradition of the occultists and hermeticists.
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