🧩 break

Doing · chosen synonyms, sense by sense

verbto separate into pieces; violate; interrupt

shattersmashsnapfracturecrackburstviolatesuspend

Shatter is glass; snap is one clean motion; fracture is bone and formal; violate is the rule sense, and burst goes outward.

nouna pause; a rupture; news

restpauseintervalsplitfracturedevelopment

Take a break is the body; a break with the past is the mind; breaking news made break the century's loudest noun.

The other end: mendrepairfix

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