break off
Senso (Inglese)
- (transitive) To remove a piece from a whole by breaking or snapping.
- (intransitive) To become detached by breaking or snapping.
- (transitive) To discontinue abruptly.
- (intransitive) To end abruptly, either temporarily or permanently.
- (ambitransitive) To play the first shot in a frame of snooker, billiards or pool.
- (slang, transitive) To give (someone) (something); to allow (someone) to take (something); to grant (someone) a share or portion of (something).
Concetti
sinonimi
snap off
break apart
chip off
break short
declare on
chop off
be torn
amputate
Traduzioni
Etimologia (Inglese)
In summary
From Middle English breke of (“break off, terminate”), a dissimilated form of earlier Middle English ofbreken. By surface analysis, break + off.
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