break

意味: 休憩・壊すこと

例文: Lena took a break… from doing nothing.
　　  レナは何もしてないのに休憩を取った。

定義: 進行中の活動を中断するいくつかの突然の出来事

コロケーション:

breakは7,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
Noun: an unexpected piece of good luck
Noun: (geology) a crack in the earth’s crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
Noun: a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
Noun: a pause from doing something (as work)
Noun: the act of breaking something
Noun: a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
Noun: breaking of hard tissue such as bone
Noun: the occurrence of breaking
Noun: an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
Noun: the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
Noun: (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
Noun: an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
Noun: a sudden dash
Noun: any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
Noun: an escape from jail
Verb: terminate
Verb: become separated into pieces or fragments
Verb: render inoperable or ineffective
Verb: ruin completely
Verb: destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
Verb: act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
Verb: move away or escape suddenly
Verb: scatter or part
Verb: force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
Verb: prevent completion
Verb: enter someone’s (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
Verb: make submissive, obedient, or useful
Verb: fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
Verb: surpass in excellence
Verb: make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
Verb: come into being
Verb: stop operating or functioning
Verb: interrupt a continued activity
Verb: make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one’s own by quitting or fleeing
Verb: curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
Verb: lessen in force or effect
Verb: be broken in
Verb: come to an end
Verb: vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
Verb: cause to give up a habit
Verb: give up
Verb: come forth or begin from a state of latency
Verb: happen or take place
Verb: cause the failure or ruin of
Verb: invalidate by judicial action
Verb: discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
Verb: assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
Verb: reduce to bankruptcy
Verb: change directions suddenly
Verb: emerge from the surface of a body of water
Verb: break down, literally or metaphorically
Verb: do a break dance
Verb: exchange for smaller units of money
Verb: destroy the completeness of a set of related items
Verb: make the opening shot that scatters the balls
Verb: separate from a clinch, in boxing
Verb: go to pieces
Verb: break a piece from a whole
Verb: become punctured or penetrated
Verb: pierce or penetrate
Verb: be released or become known; of news
Verb: cease an action temporarily
Verb: interrupt the flow of current in
Verb: undergo breaking
Verb: find a flaw in
Verb: find the solution or key to
Verb: change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
Verb: happen
Verb: become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
Verb: crack; of the male voice in puberty
Verb: fall sharply
Verb: fracture a bone of
Verb: diminish or discontinue abruptly
Verb: weaken or destroy in spirit or body

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

Noun: the telephone is an annoying interruption
Noun: there was a break in the action when a player was hurt
Noun: he finally got his big break
Noun: they built it right over a geological fault
Noun: he studied the faulting of the earth’s crust
Noun: they hoped to avoid a break in relations
Noun: we took a 10-minute break
Noun: he took time out to recuperate
Noun: the breakage was unavoidable
Noun: it was a nasty fracture
Noun: the break seems to have been caused by a fall
Noun: the break in the dam threatened the valley
Noun: then there was a break in her voice
Noun: he was up two breaks in the second set
Noun: it was presented without commercial breaks
Noun: there was a gap in his account
Noun: he made a break for the open door
Noun: the break in the eighth frame cost him the match
Noun: the breakout was carefully planned
Verb: She interrupted her pregnancy
Verb: break a lucky streak
Verb: break the cycle of poverty
Verb: The figurine broke
Verb: The freshly baked loaf fell apart
Verb: You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!
Verb: He busted my radio!
Verb: He broke the glass plate
Verb: She broke the match
Verb: offend all laws of humanity
Verb: violate the basic laws or human civilization
Verb: break a law
Verb: break a promise
Verb: The horses broke from the stable
Verb: Three inmates broke jail
Verb: Nobody can break out–this prison is high security
Verb: The clouds broke after the heavy downpour
Verb: break into tears
Verb: erupt in anger
Verb: stop the project
Verb: break off the negotiations
Verb: Someone broke in while I was on vacation
Verb: They broke into my car and stole my radio!
Verb: who broke into my account last night?
Verb: The horse was tough to break
Verb: I broke in the new intern
Verb: This sentence violates the rules of syntax
Verb: She bettered her own record
Verb: break a record
Verb: The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold
Verb: The actress won’t reveal how old she is
Verb: bring out the truth
Verb: he broke the news to her
Verb: unwrap the evidence in the murder case
Verb: light broke over the horizon
Verb: Voices broke in the air
Verb: The engine finally went
Verb: The car died on the road
Verb: The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town
Verb: The coffee maker broke
Verb: The engine failed on the way to town
Verb: her eyesight went after the accident
Verb: She had broken with the traditional patterns
Verb: The ranks broke
Verb: The surf broke
Verb: soften a shock
Verb: break a fall
Verb: If the new teacher won’t break, we’ll add some stress
Verb: The heat wave finally broke yesterday
Verb: The flat plain was broken by tall mesas
Verb: She finally broke herself of smoking cigarettes
Verb: break cigarette smoking
Verb: The first winter storm broke over New York
Verb: Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months
Verb: His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage
Verb: This play will either make or break the playwright
Verb: The will was broken
Verb: The business partners broke over a tax question
Verb: The couple separated after 25 years of marriage
Verb: My friend and I split up
Verb: She was demoted because she always speaks up
Verb: He was broken down to Sergeant
Verb: My daughter’s fancy wedding is going to break me!
Verb: The slump in the financial markets smashed him
Verb: The whales broke
Verb: The wall collapsed
Verb: The business collapsed
Verb: The dam broke
Verb: The roof collapsed
Verb: The wall gave in
Verb: The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice
Verb: Kids were break-dancing at the street corner
Verb: I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy
Verb: The book dealer would not break the set
Verb: The referee broke the boxers
Verb: The lawn mower finally broke
Verb: The gears wore out
Verb: The old chair finally fell apart completely
Verb: break a branch from a tree
Verb: The skin broke
Verb: The blade broke her skin
Verb: News of her death broke in the morning
Verb: We pause for station identification
Verb: let’s break for lunch
Verb: break a circuit
Verb: The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages
Verb: break an alibi
Verb: break down a proof
Verb: break the code
Verb: Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children
Verb: Report the news as it develops
Verb: These political movements recrudesce from time to time
Verb: The glass cracked when it was heated
Verb: his voice is breaking–he should no longer sing in the choir
Verb: stock prices broke
Verb: I broke my foot while playing hockey
Verb: The patient’s fever broke last night
Verb: His resistance was broken
Verb: a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): bankrupt, better, breach, break, break away, break dance, break down, break in, break of serve, break off, break out, break up, break-dance, breakage, breaking, breakout, bring out, bump, burst, bust, cave in, check, collapse, come apart, conk out, crack, damp, dampen, demote, develop, die, disclose, discontinue, discover, disruption, divulge, erupt, expose, fail, fall apart, fall in, falling out, fault, faulting, founder, fracture, gaolbreak, gap, geological fault, get around, get out, give, give away, give out, give way, go, go against, go bad, good luck, happy chance, infract, intermission, intermit, interrupt, interruption, jailbreak, kick downstairs, let on, let out, offend, open frame, part, pause, prison-breaking, prisonbreak, recess, recrudesce, relegate, respite, reveal, rift, ruin, rupture, separate, severance, shift, smash, snap off, soften, split, split up, stop, suspension, time out, transgress, unwrap, violate, weaken, wear, wear out

Antonyms(反意語): conform to, keep, make, promote, repair

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): accident, appear, become, change, change integrity, change of integrity, change state, collapse, come forth, crack, damage, dance, dash, deaden, decay, decrease, delay, delegate, destroy, detach, diphthongize, discontinue, disperse, disrespect, domesticate, end, escape, express emotion, flee, happen, happening, impoverish, injure, injury, interrupt, invalidate, pause, penetrate, ruin, score, separate, separation, shoot, solve, stroke, surpass, switch, tell, time interval, trespass, weaken

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abate, abort, abscond, absence, accelerate, acceleration, access time, accident, accompaniment, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, acidify, activate, adapt, adjourn, adjust, aerosolize, affect, afflict, age, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, alkalize, allegorize, alter, alternate, americanize, angulate, animize, announce, answer, anticipate, antiquate, antique, appearance, archaize, arise, arterialize, ascend, ash, assibilate, assimilate, assume, automatize, avalanche, avianize, avulsion, awaken, ax, backfire, bang up, bankrupt, barb, barbarize, baseball swing, basket, basset, be born, become, befall, beggar, beginning, belly dance, bespeak, bestialize, better, bilge, birdie, birth, birth trauma, blast trauma, bleeding, blend, blind, blister, blunt, blunt trauma, blur, bogey, boil, boil down, boogie, boom, bop, brain damage, break, break dance, break down, break in, break into, break through, break up, break with, breakage, brighten, bring, bruise, brutalize, bubble, buckle, bull’s eye, bump, burn, burning, burst in on, bust up, cakewalk, calcify, calk, call it quits, calm, camp, capacitate, capitalize, capture, carbonate, carbonize, carnify, carom, case, caseate, cast, catalyze, catch, catch on, cause to sleep, centralize, cha-cha, chance, change, change by reversal, change integrity, change intensity, change magnitude, change posture, change shape, change state, change surface, change taste, chap, charge, charleston, chasten, check, cheese, chime in, chink, chip, chondrify, circularize, citrate, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, clinker, clog, close, close out, closure, clot, cloud, cloud over, coarsen, cohere, coincidence, coke, collapse, color, combination, come, come around, come in, come on, come round, come to, come to light, come to mind, commercialize, communize, commute, compartmentalize, complete, complexify, complicate, conceive, concentrate, conclude, concretize, concur, concuss, condense, confuse, conga, conjugate, constitutionalize, consume, contact, contaminate, contradance, conventionalize, convergence, conversion, convert, cook, cool, corrode, corrupt, counterchange, crack, crackle, crash, creolize, crevasse, cripple, crop up, cross-fertilize, crumble, cry, crystallize, culminate, curdle, cure, customize, cut, cut out, cycle, dalliance, damage, dampen, darken, dawn, de-emphasize, de-energize, de-escalate, deaden, deaminate, death, decalcify, decarboxylate, decay, decelerate, deceleration, decentralize, decide, decimalize, decline, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, decrescendo, deepen, defect, defervesce, deflate, deform, deformation, dehydrogenate, delegate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demote, demulsify, demurrage, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, denitrify, deodorize, deoxidize, depersonalize, depolarize, depreciate, depress, desalinate, desensitize, destabilization, destabilize, destiny, detach, deteriorate, detransitivize, devalue, develop, development, devilize, devitalize, devolve, devour, die, digest, digitize, digress, dilute, dim, dinge, diphthongize, dirty, disable, disappearance, disassociate, discharge, disco, discolor, disconnect, discontinue, disengage, disharmonize, disintegrate, disjoin, disjoint, dislocation, disorder, disperse, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, distance, distill, disturb, disunify, diversify, divide, divorce, dizzy, do a job on, domesticate, dope, double bogey, draw, dress, drift, drop, drop off, dry, dull, dunk, dwindle, dynamize, eagle, ease up, easing, edit, electric shock, elope, elude, emaciate, emancipate, emasculate, embolism, embrittle, emerge, empty, emulsify, enable, end, ending, enervate, enfeeble, episode, equal, equalizer, equilibrate, erode, eroticize, error, erupt, escape, esterify, estrange, eternity, etherealize, etherify, etiolate, europeanize, evaporate, evasion, even, eventuality, excite, exodus, experience, explode, explosion, extend, exteriorize, fail, failure, fall, fall for, fatigue crack, fatten, fault, felt, feminize, fertilize, field goal, filibuster, fill, filling, finalize, finish, fire, fix, flash, flatten, flaw, flip, float, flocculate, flop, fluctuate, fly, fold, folk dance, foray, forbearance, form, format, foul, foxtrot, fracture, freeze, frenchify, freshen, frost, frostbite, full, gain, gasify, gel, gelatinize, get, get into, get worse, getaway, gin, give, give the axe, give way, glamorize, glaze, glorify, go off, go out, goal, golf stroke, gradate, graze, grind, grow, guess, gum, habituate, hap, happen, harden, hardening, harm, harmonize, harry, harshen, hat trick, have, heat, heckle, heel, hesitation, high-tail, homogenize, honeycomb, hoof, hue, humanize, humble, hurt, hush, hydrate, hydrogenate, hydrolyze, ice up, immaterialize, immerse, immortalize, impair, impart, implode, inactivate, incandesce, incident, increase, indispose, indurate, industrialize, inflate, inform, ingrain, inseminate, insulate, integrate, intensify, interim, interject, interlude, intermission, internationalize, interpenetrate, interrupt, interruption, intervene, intravasation, introject, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, ionize, islamize, isomerize, jam, jellify, jig, jitterbug, jive, joining, joint, juncture, keratinize, kick, kick in, knife, knuckle, laicize, lament, lapse, latent period, laugh, launder, lay waste to, lead time, leap, leap out, leave, leave off, legitimate, lend, let out, liberalize, lifehack, lift, lighten, liquefy, loosen, loss of consciousness, lottery, louden, lower, lubricate, lunitidal interval, magnetize, maim, make, mambo, mandate, manifest, mar, mark, masculinize, masse, mature, mechanize, mellow, militarize, mince, miracle, miscue, mix, modernize, modify, modulate, mold, morph, move, movement, muddy, mutate, mutation, mutilate, mythologize, narrow, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, neutralize, news event, nick, normalize, obfuscate, obscure, obsolesce, obtund, occidentalize, occult, officialize, one-off, one-step, ooze through, opacify, opalize, open, open frame, opening, operate, opsonize, orientalize, ossify, out-herod, outbrave, outbreak, outburst, outcrop, outdraw, outfox, outgrow, outmarch, outmode, outpace, outrange, outroar, outsail, outsell, outshine, outshout, outwear, outweigh, outwit, overgrow, oxidise, oxidize, oxygenize, paganize, pall, parallel, partition, pass, pass away, pasteurize, patent, pause, peep, penetrating trauma, percolate, period, periodic event, permeate, personalize, petrify, phase out, pierce, piggyback, pinch, place, plasticize, play out, poison, poke into, polarize, politicize, polka, polymerize, pop out, port, post, postponement, precipitate, prim, probe, proceed, processing time, procrastination, professionalize, promote, proof, propagandize, prostrate, publicize, pull, pull the plug, punctuate, purify, put, put away, quickstep, radicalize, rail, rape, rarefy, rationalize, react, reaction time, reappear, recede, receive, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, rectify, recur, reduce, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, regenerate, regiment, regress, rejuvenate, relax, remit, remodel, reorient, repeat, repress, respite, restore, result, resume, reticulate, retire, reverse, revolution, revolutionize, rhumba, riddle, rift, right, ripen, rise, roll, roll in, romanticize, rotational latency, round off, ruin, run, run away, run down, run low, run out, rupture, rusticate, safety, salinate, samba, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, schematize, scramble, secede, secularize, seek time, sensitize, sentimentalize, separate, separation, sequester, set, settle, sever, sex change, sexualize, shade, shag, shake, shallow, shame, shape, sharpen, shatter, shear, shift, shimmer, shimmy, shipwreck, shoot, shorten, show, shrink, shrivel, shut off, sign off, simplify, skank, skedaddle, skin, slam dance, slenderize, slip, slit, slowdown, slump, smoothen, smut, sneak in, sober, sober up, socialize, soften, solarize, solemnize, solidify, solvate, sorb, sound, sour, spare, specialize, spice, spike, spill, split, spot, sputter, square dance, stabilize, stagnate, stain, stamp out, stampede, steepen, stet, stiffen, still, sting, stop, storm, straighten, strain, stratify, strengthen, strike, string, stub out, sublimation, sublime, subluxate, substitute, suburbanize, subvert, success, suffuse, superannuate, supercharge, supervene, supervention, supple, surf, surprise, suspend, sweeten, swing, swipe, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, synthesize, take, take effect, take in, take off, tame, tango, tap dance, tapdance, taper, tarriance, task, tear, temper, tender, tennis stroke, tense, territorialize, thicken, thin, thin out, thing, think, thrive, thrombose, tighten, time constant, time slot, tone down, torture, total, touch, touchdown, trample, transaminate, transfer, transfigure, transform, transformation, transgress, transition, transitivize, translate, transmutation, transmute, transpire, transpose, traumatize, treat, trouble, tunnel, turn, turn back, turn on, turn out, twinkle, twist, two-step, uglify, ulcerate, unbind, unbrace, unclutter, undergo, undo, undulate, unhook, uniformize, union, unite, unsanctify, unscramble, unsex, untie, untune, unwrap, urbanize, utilize, vagary, validate, vandalize, vanish, variation, variegate, vascularize, vent, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, volley, vulcanize, vulgarise, wake up, wale, waltz, wane, warm, warm up, wash out, wash up, weaken, weaponize, weather, wet, whiplash, whittle away, widen, wilt, wonder, work, worsen, wound, wrench, zonk out

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): betray, blackout, blackwash, blow, blow out, bog down, break, break down, break in, break up, break with, breaking off, buckle, burst, caesura, chip, come out of the closet, comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, compression fracture, confide, conflict, crack, crash, crush, cut short, cut-in, dampen, dead air, deafen, delay, depressed fracture, disassociate, dislocation, displaced fracture, disunify, divorce, drop the ball, eclipse, fast break, fatigue fracture, flop, fly in the face of, fracture, fray, freeze, give the axe, hairline fracture, halftime, heckling, hold on, impacted fracture, implode, inclined fault, incomplete fracture, interjection, interrupt, ladder, lapse, leak, letup, malfunction, misfire, muckrake, out, punctuation, puncture, reduce, respite, rest, reveal, rupture, schism, secede, shatter, sideline, simple fracture, sin, slump, smash, smashing, snap, spill the beans, spring, spring break, strike-slip fault, suspension, take five, take ten, time-out, trespass

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: bankruptcy, better, breach, break, break dance, break out, break-in, breakable, breakage, breakdown, breaker, breakout, breakup, bust, buster, cave in, check, collapse, damper, demotion, development, disclosure, discontinuation, discovery, disrupt, divulgement, divulgence, expose, exposure, failure, fracture, giveaway, infraction, intermission, interrupt, offence, offender, offense, offensive, pause, recess, recrudescence, relegation, revealing, revelation, separation, separatist, sever, split, stop, suspend, transgression, transgressor, violable, violation, violative, violator, weakener, wear

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: economics, law, psychology

Usage Category: informal

Usage Context: business, conversation, descriptive, emotional, online

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

TOEIC600

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, Finding Nemo, Frozen, The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: surprise