| 词汇 | thesaurus_articles_to-break |
| 释义 | to breakThese words all mean to damage something so that it no longer works or is no longer in perfect condition. Break is the most commonly used word. You can also break a bone or break your arm/leg, etc. A more formal word for this is fracture. I didn't mean to break your phone. If you break a window, you must pay to have it replaced. He broke his ankle playing football. Last year he fractured his skull. An informal word that means the same as break is bust. One of the children has bust the computer. Often when you break something, you cause it to separate into pieces. If something such as glass breaks into many small pieces, it shatters or smashes. Shatter can also be used of a part of a person's body, referring to the bone. The ball hit the window and shattered it. She was involved in a serious car accident, shattering her leg. I dropped the vase and it smashed. Snap is used when something that is thin breaks suddenly into two pieces with a cracking sound. She bent the ruler and it snapped. If you breaks a small piece off the edge of something, you chip it. I chipped the cup when I was putting it away. When you cause something to have lines on its surface but the pieces do not separate, you crack it. A stone hit the window and cracked it. When something has very deep lines in it, or breaks into two pieces in a straight line, it splits. The wood had split. If parts break off something because it is in bad condition, it is falling apart. I've only had these shoes for a week and they're already falling apart. Related articleseasily broken to break down broken |
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