verb

• (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
  "If the vase falls to the floor, it might break."
• (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
  "His ribs broke under the weight of the rocks piled on his chest."
• (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
  "Can you break a hundred-dollar bill for me?"
• (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
  "Her child’s death broke Angela."

noun

• A rest or pause, usually from work.
• (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
  "Following the invasion of France by the Germans in May of 1940, the securities markets experienced a break in prices."
• (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
  "No matter how much text you add above the break, the text after the break will always appear at the top of a new page."
• (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.

noun

• (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
  "The smooth criminal on beat breaks / Never put me in your box if your shit eats tapes"

verb

• (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
  "Let the poppers pop and the breakers break / We're cool, cool cats, it's like that"
• (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
  "Breaking heavily, now on a 1 in 39 gradient, the train makes as if to cross the Tamar at once, only to swing sharply to the right, […]."