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