Break Off

Definition: Break Off

Break Off

Verb

1. Interrupt before its natural or planned end; "We had to cut short our vacation".

2. Prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break the silence".

3. Break off; of a piece from a whole; "Her tooth chipped".

4. Break a piece from a whole; "break a branch from a tree".

5. Break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Break Off

Abrogation

Disclaim; (deny); ignore, repudiate; recant; divest oneself, break off.

Cessation

Verb: cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt; break off, leave off; hold, stop, pull up, stop short; stick, hang fire; halt; pause, rest; burn out, blow out, melt down.

Desuetude

Verb: be -unaccustomed; Adjective: leave off a habit, cast off a habit, break off a habit, wean oneself of a habit, violate a habit, break through a habit, infringe a habit, leave off a custom, cast off a custom, break off a custom, wean oneself of a custom, violate a custom, break through a custom, infringe a custom, leave off a usage, cast off a usage, break off a usage, wean oneself of a usage, violate a usage, break through a usage, infringe a usage; disuse; wear off.

Discontinuity

Discontinue, pause, interrupt; intervene; break, break in upon, break off; interpose; break the thread, snap the thread; disconnect; (disjoin); dissever.

Relinquishment

Break off, leave off; desist; stop; (cease); hold one's hand, stay one's hand; quit one's hold; give over, shut up shop.

Crosswords: Break Off

Yeah, I was looking to break off a little somethin' somethin' but my crew gave me the 411 on that skank and she's all about the bling-bling (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

Break off the attack (Battlestar Galactica; writing credit: Souleymane Cissé)

I said break off the attack (Battlestar Galactica; writing credit: Souleymane Cissé)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

So Pearl, who had enough of shadow in her own little life, chose to break off all acquaintance with this repining brook

His client, whom in his character of counsel he persisted in calling Champmathieu, had not been seen to scale the wall or break off the branch

Now and then he tried to break off the road, but the wall of darkness thrust him back

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

As the tapeworm matures inside the intestines, these segments (proglottids) break off and pass into the stool. (references)

Human Rights

Iraq

In February the Foreign Minister threatened to break off official ties to U.N. workers supervising Oil-for-Food Program distribution in northern Iraq, and to revoke their visas and deport them. (references)

Minorities

India

In Uttar Pradesh on August 6, a young couple, a Brahmin boy and a Jat (lower caste) girl, were hanged publicly by their own families in front of most of the village as punishment for refusing to break off a cross-caste relationship. (references)

Travel

Oman

Visitors should also be sensitive to hosts who break off a discussion for prayer at noon and at sunset, which falls during business hours. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "break off": break off a connection ♦ break off an engagement ♦ break off relation ♦ break off relations ♦ break off with ♦ To break off ♦ To break off from. Additional references.

Afrikaans

afbreek (break). (various references)

Albanian

thyhem (break, comb, crash, deflect, dilapidate, go to pieces, snap), prishem (be destroyed, decay, decompose, deteriorate, fail, fall, fall out, fall to pieces, go awry, go phut, go wrong, pack up, perish, putrefy, quarrel, rot, run to seed, separate, take apart, touch, turn sour), ndalem (call on, drop in, drop off, dwell on, halt, lay off, light, pause, pull up, put up, stand, stand still, stop), lë (allow, chuck, cut, drop, dump, give up, grant, jilt, jump, leave, let, let by, Miss, omit, overjump, overleap, Park, pass up, permit, put, quit, release, relinquish, resign, tek pupa, vacate, yield), këputem (break, rip, rupture). (various references)

Arabic 

‏توقف (breakdown, come to a halt, cut off, demise, discontinue, end, halt, hinge, hitch, lapse, layover, let up, letup, obstruction, pass by, pause, pull up, quit, rest, run down, setback, stall, stand, stay, stop, stop over, stoppage, stopping, touch), ‏إنقطع (cease, devote, rupture, sever, stop). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отронвам (shed, tear off), отчупвам (snap off, twist off), отчеквам (nip off, pinch, pinch off), откъсвам (break away, dissociate, island, pick off, prescind, pull, pull off, rend, rip off, tear away, tear off, tear out, tweak, uproot, win away), откъртвам (dislodge, lever out), откършвам се (snap), откършвам (snap off, twist off), пресичам се (clabber, cloth, coagulate, cut, join), прекъсвам (break in, catch up, cease, cut, discontinue, halt, intercept, interpose, interrupt, open, pretermit, quit, release, stop, switch off, throw out). (various references)

Chinese 

斷絕 (sever), �'� (stick up). (various references)

Czech

zrušit (abolish, abrogate, annul, call off, cancel, close down, countermand, destroy, disannul, discontinue, dissolve, do away with, invalidate, nullify, overturn, quash, raise, repeal, rescind, revers, reverse, revoke, set aside, stop, strike off, sweep, take off, undo, unmake, vitiate, void, withdraw), zarazit se (check, stumble), ulomit se (come off), ulomit (chip off, snap), přerušit (abort, adjourn, black out, cut off, cut short, discontinue, disrupt, intermit, interrupt, split up, stop, suspend, terminate, turn off), odlomit. (various references)

Danish

det foroegede indhold af sulfidindeslutninger har den virkning,at den i sig selv seje spaan fra et lavkullet staal braekker i korte stykker paa grund af de skoere indeslutninger (the increased content of sulphide inclusions makes it possible for the tough chip of low carbon steels to break off in short pieces because of the brittle inclusions). (various references)

Dutch

losbreken (break), afbreken (break, break down, cry down, cut, cut a connection, cut up, demolish, divide, pick, pluck, pull down, pull to pieces, run down, separate, share, stop, take down, tear off, write down). (various references)

Esperanto

derompiĝi (break), derompi (break). (various references)

Finnish

pysähtyä (cease, come to a halt, come to a standstill, draw up, halt, stop), lohkaista (detach, separate, split), keskeyttää (discontinue, interrupt), katkoa (cut), katkaista (break, cut off, tear off). (various references)

French

se casser net, rompre (break, break up), interrompre (break). (various references)

Frisian

ôfbrekke (break, break down, demolish, interrupt, pick, pluck, pull down, stop, take down, tear off). (various references)

German

abbrechen (abbort, abort, break, break away, breakups, call off, cancel, demolish, discontinue, sever, shear off, snap off, split off, stop, strike, tear down, terminate, to abort, to break away, to break off, to cut short, to discontinue, to dismantle, to sever, to tear down, to truncate). (various references)

Greek 

χαλάω δεσμούς, αποσπώ (abstract, detach, distract, elicit, extort, extract, pluck, pry, pull, tease out, unfix, wean 1, wean 2, wrench, wrest, wring), διακόπτω (abort, adjourn, break in, cease, chip in, cut in, cut off, disconnect, discontinue, intercept, intermit, interrupt, pause, sever, snub, suspend). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל� תק יחסים (bust up), ל� תק קשר (disconnect). (various references)

Hungarian

megszakít (abort, cut off, intermit, interrupt, intersect, miscarry, to break off, to cut off, to intermit), leszakad (come off, to break away, to come away, to come off, to founder, to sliver, to split off), abbamarad (cease, to break off, to cease, to come to nothing, to give over, to leave off). (various references)

Indonesian

menggentas (pinch off), coplok (apart, come loose, detached), cepol (broken, damaged), af (break up). (various references)

Italian

troncare (cut off, prevent, throttle, truncate), stroncare (pan, pull, put down, slap, slate, smash, suppress), smettere (cease, give up, leave off, quit, stop), interrompersi (break, discontinue), interrompere (break, cut off, discontinue, interrupt, stop), distaccare (come off, detach, detail, leave behind, separate), cessare (abate, cease, cut out, discontinue, finish, go down, quit, stop, subside). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� �裂 (explosion, rupture). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はれつ (explosion, rupture), � �"ぜつ (become extinct, cease to exist). (various references)

Manx

scarrey (alienate, alienation, break away, break up, come away, detach, detachment; spread, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjunction, dissociate, dissociation, distinguish, disunion, disunite, diverge, divergence, divide, divorce, draw apart; spacing, insulation, leaving, part, part with, parting, relinquish, schism, secede, secession, segment, segregate, segregation, separate, separating, separation, sever, severance, shut off, slough, split up, start, sunder), girree ass (intermit), brishey jeh (break loose, discontinuance, discontinue). (various references)

Pig Latin

eakbray offay.(various references)

Portuguese

romper (breach, break, break up, cut off, cut up, disconnect, disrupt, fracture, open, part, pierce, rip, run, rupture, sever, snap, splinter, split, tear), cessar (cease, leave, let up, stop, surcease). (various references)

Romanian

se întrerupe (break down, discontinue, drop, halt, intermit, interrupt), rupe (break, break smth. in pieces, cull, declare off, dismember, disrupt, gather, lacerate, open, pull, pull apart, rend, rift, rip, scatter, separate, sever, snap, splinter, split, stop, tear, uproot), desprinde (break away, detach, disengage, take out). (various references)

Russian 

отламывать (twist off). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zastati (lodge, pause, stop), prekinuti (abort, adjourn, cease, cut, cut off, cut short, disconnect, disrupt, intercept, interrupt, leave off, part, put an end, rupture, sever), prekidati (interrupt), otkinuti (nip, pluck, rip off, sever, tear off), odvojiti (detach, disconnect, divide, ease off, mark out, segregate, separate, set off, sever, sort, spare, uncouple), odvaliti (calve, roll off), odlomiti (chip), odlemiti (come off). (various references)

Spanish

terminar (accomodate, break, call it a day, close up, come, complete, conclude, discontinue, dispose of, end, end up, expire, finish, finish off, follow up, go out, leave off, let up, sign off, stay, stop, terminate, throw over), separarse (break, break away, break up, come asunder, come away, disjoin, divide, drop off, drop out, fly off, part, secede, separate, split), separar (break up, come between, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, divide, get away, hive off, keep away, move away, open, pull apart, segregate, separate, sever, take away), romper (begin, break, break down, cleave, cut through, initiate, interrupt, leak, open, shatter, smash, smash down, smash in, snap, snap off, sunder, take apart, tear), perder el trabajo, pararse (cut out, draw up, end, get up, halt, lead, Parry, pull in, pull up, stall, stand up, stop, stopping, ward off, wind down), interrumpirse (cut out, fail, halt), desprenderse (become detached, break away, come away, come off, drop off, drop out, fall away, fall off, fall out, fly off), desgajarse, desgajar, dejar de hablar, cesar (break, cap, cease, close up, come, cut off, delete, disable, eat up, end, expire, follow up, get over, get through, give over, go out, hole, knock off, land, leave off, let up, liquidate, stop, surcease, terminate, throw over, top off, wind up, zip, zip up), acabar (accomodate, accomplish, come, complement, complete, discontinue, eat up, end, expire, finish, follow up, get over, give over, go out, hole, knock off, land, leave off, let up, play out, round off, terminate, throw over, top off, use up, wash out, waste, wind up, work out). (various references)

Swedish

bryta av (snap). (various references)

Turkish

bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), bitmek (adore, be at an end, be out of smth., be very fond of, break up, cease, come to an end, conclude, die down, drop, end, end off, end up, expire, fag, finish, lapse, lay off, leave off, quit, run out, sprout, stop, surcease, terminate, vegetate, wear out), kopmak (blow up, break, come off, detach, fly off, part, rupture, separate, sever, snap, split, sunder, tear), koparmak (break, cozen, cut off, deflorate, deflower, dissever, extort, pick, pick off, pluck, pry, pull off, rend, rip, rip off, Rive, rupture, snap, snap off, snatch, snatch away from, snatch from, sunder, take apart, tear, tear away, tear off, tear out, unstick, work, wring), kırılmak (be broken, be hurt, be offended, be piqued at, break, chip, crash, crush, explode, fracture, go to pieces, offend, Rive, shatter, sink, snap). (various references)

Turkmen 

яyrtmak (tear off), gдtmek (chop off). (various references)

Ukrainian

раптом припиняти, відламувати (chip). (various references)

abrumpere, abrumpet, adbreviasti, adbreviata, adbreviatus, adbreviavit, incidam, incidamque, incidas, incidat, incidebant, incidemus, incident, incidentes, incidere, incideremus, inciderent, inciderit, inciderunt, incidet, incidetis, incidi, incidissemus, incidisti, incidit, inciditque, incidunt, incisus, infringere, infringetur, praeruptam, praerupti, praeruptis, praerupto, praeruptum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: rakeoff.

-3 letters: afore, baker, brake, break, broke, faker, freak, kebar, offer.

-4 letters: aero, baff, bake, bare, barf, bark, beak, bear, boar, boff, bora, bore, brae, fake, fare, faro, fear, fora, forb, fore, fork, frae, froe, kbar, kerb, kerf, kore, okra, raff, rake, robe.

-5 letters: abo, aff, arb, are, arf, ark, bar, boa, bra, bro.