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11. initiate, begin, actuate, instigate, set in motion, start the ball rolling, take the first step, take the initiative, take the plunge, make a start, break the ice; break ground, institute, inaugurate, found, establish, set up.
12.
break down a. See def. 10.
b. founder, collapse, topple down; come apart, break, go to pieces, fall to pieces; stop working, die out, Sl. conk out, Sl. go kaput.
13.
break with a. depart from, separate from; break away, leave, escape,
b. repudiate, renounce, disavow, disclaim, reject, wash one's hands of.
14.
break in a. enter, go in or into, find one's way into, edge in, Inf. worm oneself into; burst in, barge in.
b. train, initiate, show [s.o.] the ropes, condition, prepare.
c. get used to, begin to wear or use.
d. See def. 5. e. burglarize, rob. See - rob (defs. 1-3).
15.
break someone's heart disappoint, disillusion, let down; abandon, jilt, forsake, run out on, desert, turn one's back on.
16.
break up a. (of a personal relationship) sever, break the ties, go separate ways; end, terminate, stop, cease, give up on.
b. make [s.o.] laugh, amuse, entertain, divert; laugh, giggle, chuckle, roar, Inf double up with laughter.
-n. 17. crack, shatter, snap, smash; fracture, splinter, shiver, chip; explosion, burst, rupture, blast; split, tear, rent, flaw, fissure, cleft, Archaic, scissure; crevice, chasm, schism, cleavage, rift, breach, chink, slit, rip; gap, opening, hole, gulf, cavity, leak; slash, gash, cut.
18. altercation, difference, falling out, divergence, variance; parting of the ways, breaking up, breaking off, separation, disunion; discord, dissension, dissent, disagreement, friction, disruption, conflict, contention; dispute, tiff, argument, quarrel, misunderstanding.
19. interruption, interference, intrusion, punctuation; interjection, intervention, interposition; suspension, discontinuation, hiatus, lacuna; intermission, interlude, recess, rest, respite; pause, interval, lapse; division, Class. Prosody, caesura; stoppage, arrest, cessation; omission, space, gap.
breakable, adj. frangible, fragile, frail, brittle, easily broken; friable, crumbly, not shatterproof; shaky, tottering, wobbling, teetering; unstable, unsteady, Inf. jerry-built; weak, weakened, feeble, decrepit; delicate, flimsy, slight, dainty,
breakdown, n. 1. collapse, foundering, toppling down, cave-in; malfunction, wearing out, Sl. conking out; (all usu. of emotional or psychological health) nervous breakdown, going to pieces, coming apart at the seams, cracking, Sl. losing it.
2. analysis, sorting out, division, organization, anatomization; rundown, review, summary,
breakwater, n. sea wall, mole, jetty, jutty, groin, barrier, embankment,
breast, n. 1. chest, bosom, front; mammary gland, tit, Sl. boob; teat, mamma, nipple, Chiefly Dial, pap, (of animals) dug, (of cows) udder; bust, set. See - bosom (def. 1).
2. heart, soul, core; affections, feeling, emotion, sentiment, sensibility; conscience, compunction,
breath, n. 1. respiration, breathing, wind, Archaic. halitus; inhalation, inspiration, exhalation, expiration; pant, wheeze, gasp, gulp.
2. life, life force, lifeblood, vital spark, breath of life, soul, anima.
3. pause, respite, break, breather, breathing spell, rest, recess, time-out, Australian, spell, Inf. letup.
4. murmur, whisper, sigh, undertone.
5. breeze, gentle breeze or wind, zephyr; puff, waft,
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