break off
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
interrupt before its natural or planned end
We had to cut short our vacation
Types & categories
Sense 2 verb
prevent completion
stop the project
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- discontinuance derivation
- stop derivation
Sense 3 verb
break off (a piece from a whole)
Her tooth chipped
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
break a piece from a whole
break a branch from a tree
Types & categories
- detach hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 5 verb
break a small piece off from
chip the glass
Types & categories
- cut hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | break |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | hang up |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | discontinuance |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | stop |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | terminate |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | fracture |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | bog down |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | interrupt |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | chipping |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | chip |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | part |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | flake off |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | exfoliate |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | breaking |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | breaker |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | breakable |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | detach |
| 5 | also see | Related & opposite | chip at |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | chipping |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | chip |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | cut |