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break verb (EMOTION) [ I or T ] to lose your confidence, determination, or ability to control yourself, or to make someone do this: break someone's will They tried to break his will (= make him lose his determination to fight or continue), but he resisted. He thought she would break under the strain.
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to break up with so. - with one's boyfriend or girlfriend mit jmdm. Schluss machen to break sth. down [fig.] etw. acc. aufdröseln | dröselte auf, aufgedröselt | [fig.] to break a duck eine Pechsträhne beenden to break a fly on the wheel [fig.] mit Kanonen auf Spatzen schießen [fig.] to break a butterfly on a wheel [fig.] mit Kanonen auf ...
to break [go to pieces] kaputtgehen [ugs.] entzweigehen to break sth. [interrupt, disrupt] etw. Akk. unterbrechen to break sth. [turn off] etw. Akk. abschalten [Kontakt]comp.electr.tech. to break sth. [e.g. a lock] etw. Akk. erbrechen [geh.] [aufbrechen, z. B. ein Schloss] to break sth. [peace] etw. stören [Ruhe] to break sth. [smash, break to ...
to break sb. jdn. mürbe kriegen [ugs.] fin. to break sb. [financially] jdn. bankrott machen [ugs.] [hum.] sports to break sb. [win a tennis game in which the opponent is serving] jdm. das Aufschlagspiel abnehmen [Tennis]
[transitive] break something to do something that is against the law; to not keep a promise, etc. I had broken the law and deserved to be punished. People should not be allowed to break the rules. to break a promise. to break an agreement/a contract/your word. to break an appointment (= not to come to it)
F 2014-06-11: to break at the gate F 2014-01-28: to break (fever) A 2013-10-05: As they say: to break the rules for effect, you have to know them first. A 2013-06-07: nice bones to break? F 2013-06-06: to break/for breaking A 2013-06-06: to break down a text A 2012-09-10: it means probably the same as in "to break the bank" - indicating more mon...
