break

break is a valid 5-letter word worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends.

Meaning

What does break mean?

  • noun

    (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving

  • verb

    force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up

  • noun

    any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare

  • verb

    go to pieces

  • verb

    ruin completely

  • verb

    act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

  • verb

    become fractured; break or crack on the surface only

  • verb

    do a break dance

  • verb

    prevent completion

  • verb

    become separated into pieces or fragments

  • verb

    make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

  • noun

    breaking of hard tissue such as bone

  • verb

    terminate

  • verb

    surpass in excellence

  • verb

    discontinue an association or relation; go different ways

  • noun

    the act of breaking something

  • verb

    happen

  • verb

    break down, literally or metaphorically

  • noun

    a pause from doing something (as work)

  • verb

    stop operating or functioning

  • verb

    fracture a bone of

  • verb

    reduce to bankruptcy

  • verb

    enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act

  • verb

    assign to a lower position; reduce in rank

  • noun

    (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other

  • verb

    break a piece from a whole

  • verb

    make submissive, obedient, or useful

  • noun

    a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

  • verb

    move away or escape suddenly

  • noun

    a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

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