1. (Cause something to) be damaged and separated into pieces
2. (Cause something to) stop working as a result of being damaged: My watch has broken.
3. Do something that is against the law: not keep a promise, etc
4. Stop doing something for a while, especially when it is time to eat or have a drink: Let's for lunch.
5. Interrupt something: your journey (= stop somewhere on the way to your destination) the silence A tree broke his fall (= stopped him as he was falling)
6. Free (of a person or an object) escape from a position in which they are trapped: He broke free from his attacker.
7. (Cause somebody / something to) be weakened or power of the unions destroyed: His wife's death broke him.
8. (Of the weather) change suddenly after a settled period. 9. begin: Day was - ing.
10. become or make something known 11. (of a boy's voice) become deeper
12. do better than a previous record 13. solve something secret: a code