noun
- A failure to perform some promised act or obligation.
- An opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification. )
- A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions. )
- usage: "they hoped to avoid a break in relations"
- synonyms: rupture, break, severance, rift, falling out
verb
- Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises.
- usage: "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise"
- synonyms: transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against, break
- Make an opening or gap in.
- synonyms: gap
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