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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Same as Weir.

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Same as Weir.

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Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.

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Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.

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To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

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To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth.

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To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces.

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To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail;…

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To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.

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To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a buildin…

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To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.

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To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.

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Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.

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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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The breast of a bird.

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See Reveal.

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The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling.

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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

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The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, t…

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To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal verteb…

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A great noise; a hollow sound.

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An empire in the southeast of Europe and southwest of Asia.

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Affray; broil; contest; combat.

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To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.

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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oa…

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A wicker fish basket.

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To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.

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To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bo…

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A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.

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Something huge; a roistering blade; also, a spree.

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Something huge; a roistering blade; also, a spree.

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To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.

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To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.

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The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.

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The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.

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To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder.

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To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder.

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A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moiste…

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A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moiste…

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Same as Weir.

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Same as Weir.

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Same as Weir.

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As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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of Break

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of Burst

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To make a hissing sound.

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To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.

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A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.

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The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the ruptu…

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To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moiste…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Same as Weir.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.