break off

Speech parts

1. break off - Noun

2. break off - Verb

Meaning

prevent completion

break a piece from a whole

break off (a piece from a whole)

interrupt before its natural or planned end

break a small piece off from

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

break-off

Synonyms

stop break chip discontinue knap cut short break away come off chip off snap off sunder end close separate drop

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Antonyms

commission moor start continue covenant truss

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Hypernyms

end separate cut break divide interrupt

Hyponyms

peel flake bog interrupt disrupt fracture

Examples

So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away. John Donne

Sabotage means to push back, pull out or break off the fangs of Capitalism. Bill Haywood

It was cold autumn weather, but in spite of the cold they wandered up and down the roads of the Park for nearly three hours. They agreed to break off their intercourse; every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow. James Joyce

Directly the mulberry tree begins to make you circle, break off. Pelt the tree with laughter. Virginia Woolf

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey. Pat Conroy

I would like to break off the flower, but the branch is too high. Japanese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

break of gauge break of serve break of the day break off contacts break off relations break off with