(transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.

An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces. / A physical space that opens up in something or between two things. / (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.

(music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.

(music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.

present participle of break

The act by which something is broken. / (linguistics) A change of a vowel to a diphthong. / (music) A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones. / Breakdancing.

The act of entering a place with the intent to steal or commit some other offense; an instance of breaking and entering.

(intransitive) To enter a place by force or illicit means. / (transitive, idiomatic) To cause (something, or someone, new) to function more naturally through use or wear

plural of break

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of break