prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations" (同)break off, discontinue, stop
happen; "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time" (同)recrudesce, develop
become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" (同)separate, split up, fall_apart, come apart
be broken in; "If the new teacher wont break, well add some stress"
crack; of the male voice in puberty; "his voice is breaking--he should no longer sing in the choir"
destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments; "He broke the glass plate"; "She broke the match"
diminish or discontinue abruptly; "The patients fever broke last night"
fall sharply; "stock prices broke"
render inoperable or ineffective; "You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!"
weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death"
vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity; "The flat plain was broken by tall mesas"
(tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving; "he was up two breaks in the second set" (同)break of serve
an escape from jail; "the breakout was carefully planned" (同)breakout, jailbreak, gaolbreak, prisonbreak, prison-breaking
an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account" (同)interruption, disruption, gap
a sudden dash; "he made a break for the open door"
the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
an unexpected piece of good luck; "he finally got his big break" (同)good_luck, happy chance
an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion); "then there was a break in her voice"
the occurrence of breaking; "the break in the dam threatened the valley"
interrupt a continued activity; "She had broken with the traditional patterns" (同)break away
break a piece from a whole; "break a branch from a tree" (同)break off, snap off
move away or escape suddenly; "The horses broke from the stable"; "Three inmates broke jail"; "Nobody can break out--this prison is high security" (同)break_out, break away
destroy the completeness of a set of related items; "The book dealer would not break the set" (同)break_up
force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up; "break into tears"; "erupt in anger" (同)burst, erupt
be released or become known; of news; "News of her death broke in the morning" (同)get_out, get_around
go to pieces; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely" (同)wear, wear_out, bust, fall_apart
become punctured or penetrated; "The skin broke"
cause the failure or ruin of; "His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage"; "This play will either make or break the playwright"
cause to give up a habit; "She finally broke herself of smoking cigarettes"
change directions suddenly
change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another; "Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children"
come forth or begin from a state of latency; "The first winter storm broke over New York"
come into being; "light broke over the horizon"; "Voices broke in the air"
come to an end; "The heat wave finally broke yesterday"
curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves; "The surf broke"
emerge from the surface of a body of water; "The whales broke"
exchange for smaller units of money; "I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy"
find a flaw in; "break an alibi"; "break down a proof"
find the solution or key to; "break the code"
give up; "break cigarette smoking"
happen or take place; "Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months"
interrupt the flow of current in; "break a circuit"
invalidate by judicial action; "The will was broken"
make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or ones own by quitting or fleeing; "The ranks broke"
make the opening shot that scatters the balls
pierce or penetrate; "The blade broke her skin"
scatter or part; "The clouds broke after the heavy downpour"
separate from a clinch, in boxing; "The referee broke the boxers"
undergo breaking; "The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages"
state of being torn or burst open
the act of making a sudden noisy break
a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations" (同)breach, break, severance, rift, falling out
cutting so as to separate into pieces
detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work)
a minute and critical analysis
destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up" (同)ruin
do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house" (同)destruct
put (an animal) to death; "The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid"; "the sick cat had to be put down" (同)put down
do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia" (同)get_rid_of
the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery); "Russia and the United States discussed the dismantling of their nuclear weapons" (同)dismantlement, disassembly
Lessons in community health activism: the maternity care coalition, 1970-1990.
Maldonado L.
Family & community health.Fam Community Health.2014 Jul-Sep;37(3):212-22. doi: 10.1097/FCH.0000000000000030.
This study employed historical methodologies to explore the means through which the Maternity Care Coalition used grassroots activism to dismantle the power structures and other obstacles that contributed to high infant mortality rates in Philadelphia's health districts 5 and 6 during the 1980s. Inf
How Cells Tune Viral Mechanics-Insights from Biophysical Measurements of Influenza Virus.
Greber UF.
Biophysical journal.Biophys J.2014 Jun 3;106(11):2317-2321. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.04.025.
During replication, the physical state of a virus is controlled by assembly and disassembly processes, when particles are put together and dismantled by cellular cues, respectively. A fundamental question has been how a cell can assemble an infectious virus, and dismantle a virus entering an uninfec
CCN1 enables Fas ligand-induced apoptosis in cardiomyoblast H9c2 cells by disrupting caspase inhibitor XIAP.
Su BC1, Mo FE2.
Cellular signalling.Cell Signal.2014 Jun;26(6):1326-34. doi: 10.1016/j.cellsig.2014.02.019. Epub 2014 Mar 12.
Cell proliferation from pre-existing cardiomyocytes is a major source of cells for normal mammalian myocardial renewal or for regeneration after myocardial injury. These proliferative cardiomyocytes may act differently from the postmitotic cardiomyocytes in a stressed heart. Extracellular matrix mol
Understanding pharmacokinetics to improve tuberculosis treatment outcome.
Reynolds J1, Heysell SK.
Expert opinion on drug metabolism & toxicology.Expert Opin Drug Metab Toxicol.2014 Jun;10(6):813-23. doi: 10.1517/17425255.2014.895813. Epub 2014 Mar 6.
Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading cause of death from a curable infectious disease; drug-resistant TB threatens to dismantle all prior gains in global control. Suboptimal circulating anti-TB drug concentrations can lead to lack of cure and acquired drug resistance. Areas covered: T
… Environmental education generates a collective effort to recognize and to dismantle social structures and learned practices that threaten common environmental resources. …
年次大会 : Mechanical Engineering Congress, Japan 2014, "S2010403-1"-"S2010403-4", 2014-09-07
… This workshop is an original approach that the schoolchildren dismantle and analyze a mini-robot, respectively, under helping of college student who made this mini-robot, and new mini-robot is redesigned and rebuilt by the schoolchildren based on analysis result of old mini-robot. …
The Goletta and the fort being thus in their hands, the Turks gave orders to dismantle the Goletta- for the fort was reduced to such a state that there was nothing left to level- and to do the work more quickly and easily they mined it in ...