break

Verb - sense II

• Transitive
• 1. to disable or destroy by or as by shattering or crushing.
• 2. to fracture a bone of: to break your arm.
• 3. to impair or weaken in strength, spirit, force, or effect.
• 4. to defeat the purpose of (a strike) as by hiring non-union labour.
• 5. to ruin financially, or make bankrupt.
• 6. to surpass; outdo: to break a record.
• 7. to train to obedience; tame.
• Intransitive
• 8. (of the heart) to be crushed or overwhelmed, especially by grief.
• 9. to give way or fail as under strain.
• 10. (of a wave) to topple forward after developing a crest through the opposing pull of an undertow in shallow water.
• 11. (of stock-exchange prices) to drop quickly and considerably.