break off
Meaning
- (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).
Synonyms
snap off
break apart
chip off
break short
declare on
chop off
be torn
amputate
Translations
casser
abbrechen
romper
interrompere
abrumpere
διακόπτω
quebrarEtymology
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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