break

Verb - sense I

• Transitive
• 1. to divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments.
• 2. to exchange for a smaller amount or smaller units.
• 3. to lacerate; wound: to break the skin.
• 4. to open the breech of (a gun) either for safety or for unloading. [or sense 4?]
• 5. Music to play (a chord) as an arpeggio.
• 6. Cricket to strike (a wicket) so as to dislodge the bails.
• Intransitive
• 7. to become broken or separated into parts or fragments, especially suddenly and violently.
• 8. (of the voice) to vary between two registers, especially in emotion or during adolescence.
• 9. Music to change or go from one register to another, as a musical instrument.
• 10. Phonetics to undergo breaking.
• 11. Billiards to make a break.