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BREAK which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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We think the answer to this crossword clue is:
BREAK
Updated: October 11, 2023 by Nicoli Westwood
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We think the answer is "BREAK" which means:
- noun
- • Some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- • An unexpected piece of good luck
- • (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- • A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- • A pause from doing something (as work)
- • The act of breaking something
- • A time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- • Breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- • The occurrence of breaking
- • An abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- • The opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- • (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- • An act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- • A sudden dash
- • Any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- • An escape from jail verb
- • Terminate or end
- • Become separated into pieces or fragments
- • Render inoperable or ineffective
- • Ruin completely
- • Destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- • Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- • Move away or escape suddenly
- • Scatter or part
- • Force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- • Prevent completion
- • Enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- • Make submissive, obedient, or useful
- • Fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- • Surpass in excellence
- • Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- • Come into being
- • Stop operating or functioning
- • Interrupt a continued activity
- • Make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- • Curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- • Lessen in force or effect
- • Be broken in
- • Come to an end
- • Vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- • Cause to give up a habit
- • Give up
- • Come forth or begin from a state of latency
- • Happen or take place
- • Cause the failure or ruin of
- • Invalidate by judicial action
- • Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- • Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- • Reduce to bankruptcy
- • Change directions suddenly
- • Emerge from the surface of a body of water
- • Break down, literally or metaphorically
- • Do a break dance
- • Exchange for smaller units of money
- • Destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- • Make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- • Separate from a clinch, in boxing
- • Go to pieces
- • Break a piece from a whole
- • Become punctured or penetrated
- • Pierce or penetrate
- • Be released or become known; of news
- • Cease an action temporarily
- • Interrupt the flow of current in
- • Undergo breaking
- • Find a flaw in
- • Find the solution or key to
- • Change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- • Happen
- • Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- • Crack; of the male voice in puberty
- • Fall sharply
- • Fracture a bone of
- • Diminish or discontinue abruptly
- • Weaken or destroy in spirit or body
An example sentence would be:
- • "I need a break from work."
- • "He took a coffee break in the afternoon."
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| New York Times06 Jan 2011 | Across 9 | |
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