Break

Definition

break /breÇk/ v ( pt broke /brǝƱk/; pp broken /'brǝƱkǝn/) ၁။ (က) ~ (in/into sth) က်ဳိးသည္။ ကြဲသည္။ ျပတ္သည္။ The string broke. ❍ Glass breaks easily. ❍ The bag broke under the weight of the bottles inside it. ❍ She dropped the plate and it broke into pieces/in two. (ခ) ~ sth (in/into sth) ခ်ဳိးသည္။ ခြဲသည္။ ျဖတ္သည္။ break a cup/vase/window ❍ She fell off a ladder and broke her arm. ❍ If you pull too hard you will break the string. ❍ He broke the bar of chocolate into two (pieces). ၂။ (က) ပ်က္သည္။ My watch has broken. (ခ) …ေၾကာင့္ပ်က္သည္။ I think I've broken the washing-machine. ၃။ (အေရျပား) စုတ္သည္၊ ေပါက္သည္။ The dog bit me but didn't break the skin. ၄။ ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္သည္။ ေဖာက္ဖ်က္သည္။ ပ်က္ကြက္သည္။ break the law/the rules/the conditions ❍ break an agreement/a contract/a promise/one's word ❍ break an appointment (ie fail to come to it) ❍ He was breaking the speed limit (ie travelling faster than the law allows) ၅။ ~ (off) ေခတၱရပ္နားသည္။ Let's break for lunch. ၆။ (က) ၾကားေဖာက္သည္။ ၾကားျဖတ္သည္။ break sb's concentration ❍ We broke our journey (to London) at Oxford (ie stopped in Oxford on the way to London). ❍ a broken night's sleep (ie a night during which one keeps waking) ❍ her decision to break her career to go back to college ❍ I broke my diet by eating a bar of chocolate. (ခ) အဆံုးသတ္ေစသည္။ She broke the silence by coughing. ❍ Someone laughed suddenly, and the spell was broken. (ဂ) အင္အားသံုး၍ ရပ္ဆိုင္းေစသည္၊ ၿပီးဆံုးေစသည္။ break a blockade/siege ❍ The employers have not broken the dockers' strike. ၇။ (ရာသီဥတု) ႐ုတ္တရက္ ေျပာင္းလဲသည္။ The fine weather/The heatwave broke at last. ၈။ အၾကားအလပ္ ျဖစ္ေပၚသည္။ The clouds broke and the sun came out. ၉။ (က) ေပၚထြန္းလာသည္။ Dawn/The day was breaking. Compare DAY-BREAK (ခ) ( Brit ) (႐ုတ္တရက္ ျပင္းထန္စြာ) ျဖစ္ေပၚလာသည္။ The storm broke. မုန္တိုင္းက်လာသည္။ (ဂ) လူသိရွင္ၾကား ျဖစ္သည္၊ ျဖစ္ေစသည္။ There was a public outcry when the scandal broke. ၁၀။ (က) ပ်က္ျပားေစသည္။ အားေပ်ာ့ေစသည္။ break sb's morale/resistance/resolve/spirit ❍ The government is determined to break the power of the trade unions. ❍ The scandal broke him (ie ruined his reputation and destroyed his confidence). (ခ) ပ်က္ျပားသြားသည္။ အားေပ်ာ့ သြားသည္။ ေတာင့္မခံႏိုင္ ျဖစ္သည္။ Throughout the ordeal his spirit never broke. ❍ He broke under questioning (ie was no longer able to endure it) and confessed to everything. (ဂ) (ျပင္းျပေသာ ခံစားခ်က္ ေဝဒနာ) ဖိစီးသည္။ The death of his wife broke him completely. ၁၁။ (က) (ခံစားခ်က္ေၾကာင့္ အသံ) တိမ္သြားသည္၊ ဆို႔နင့္သြားသည္။ Her voice broke as she told us the dreadful news. (ခ) (ေယာက်္ားကေလး ႀကီးေကာင္ဝင္ခ်ိန္) အသံေျပာင္းသည္။ His voice broke when he was thirteen. ၁၂။ (စံခ်ိန္) ခ်ဳိးသည္။ break the Commonwealth/World/Olympic 100 metres record. ၁၃။ (ခရစ္ကက္) ပစ္ေပးလိုက္ေသာ ေဘာလံုး ေျမႏွင့္ထိၿပီး လမ္းေၾကာင္းေျပာင္းသြားသည္။ ၁၄။ (ပင္လယ္လိႈင္း လံုး) ႐ိုက္ခတ္သည္။ the sound of waves breaking on the beach ❍ The sea was breaking over the wrecked ship. ၁၅။ (လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ခ်က္ကို) ေဖာ္ထုတ္ႏိုင္သည္။ break a code. ၁၆။ ( esp US ) (ေငြစကၠဴကို) အေႂကြလဲသည္၊ ဖ်က္သည္။ Can you break a twenty dollar bill? n ၁။ ~ (in sth) (က) က်ဳိးေပါက္သည့္ေနရာ။ အေပါက္။ a break in a fence/wall/water-pipe. (ခ) အၾကားအလပ္။ အျပတ္။ a break in the clouds (ie where blue sky can be seen) ❍ Wait for a break in the traffic before crossing the road. ၂။ (က) အားလပ္ခ်ိန္။ ေခတၱနားခ်ိန္။ morning break (eg between lessons at school) ❍ lunch-break (eg in an office, a school or a factory) ❍ have/take an hour's break for lunch. ❍ work for five hours without a break ❍ a break in a conversation. (ခ) ရက္တိုအားလပ္ရက္။ a weekend break in the country ❍ I'm in need of a break. ၃။ ~ (in sth); ~ (with sb/sth) (က) ခါးျပတ္ျခင္း။ ေျပာင္းလဲျခင္း။ a break in a child's education ❍ a break in the weather (ie a change from bad to good weather). ❍ a break with tradition (ie a change from what is accepted in art, behaviour, etc). (ခ) အဆက္ျပတ္ျခင္း။ a break in diplomatic relations ❍ She's been depressed since the break with her boyfriend. ၄။ ( infml ) ကံ။ ၾကမၼာ။ အခြင့္အေရး။ a big/lucky break ❍ a bad break (ie a piece of bad luck) ❍ give sb a break (ie a chance to show their ability). ၅။ (ခရစ္ကက္) ပစ္လိုက္ေသာ ေဘာလံုး သည္ ေျမကိုေထာက္ၿပီး လမ္းေၾကာင္းဖည္သြားျခင္း။ an off/a leg break (ie a ball that spins to the right/left on bouncing). ၆။ (also break of service, service break ) (တင္းနစ္) တစ္ဖက္၏ စေပးလွည့္တြင္ မိမိႏိုင္ျခင္း။ Smith has had two breaks already in this set. ❍ break point (eg when the score is 30-40). ၇။ (ဘိလိယက္၊ စႏူကာ) တစ္ေယာက္တည္း အမွတ္ဆက္တိုက္ယူျခင္း။ ယင္းသို႔ ရေသာ အမွတ္။ a break of 52. ❏ breakable /'breÇkǝbl/ adj က်ဳိးလြယ္၊ ပဲ့လြယ္ေသာ။ ❏ breakables n [pl] ယင္းသို႔ေသာ အရာဝတၳဳမ်ား။ ❏ break away (from sb/sth) [ PHRV ] ၁။ ႐ုတ္တရက္ ထြက္ေျပးလြတ္ေျမာက္သည္။ The prisoner broke away from his guards. ၂။ ခြဲထြက္သည္။ တစ္စင္ေထာင္သည္။ Several Labour MPs broke away to join the Social Democrats. ❍ A province has broken away to form a new state. ❏ break-dancing n [U] အေမရိကန္ လူမည္းလူငယ္မ်ားတြင္ ေခတ္စားေသာ အလွျဖစ္ေစ၊ အၿပိဳင္ျဖစ္ေစ ကေသာ အလြန္ျမဴးႂကြ ေသာ အက။ ဘရိတ္ဒန္႔။ ❏ break down [ PHRV ] ၁။ (စက္) ပ်က္သည္။ The telephone system has broken down. ❍ We (ie Our car) broke down on the freeway. ၂။ ပ်က္ျပားသည္။ Negotiations between the two sides have broken down. ❍ If law and order break down, anarchy will result. ၃။ (က်န္းမာေရး အေျခအေန) ယိုယြင္းသည္၊ ယိုင္လဲသည္။ Her health broke down under the pressure of work. ၄။ စိတ္မတင္းႏိုင္ျဖစ္သည္။ He broke down and wept when he heard the news. See also BREAK- DOWN ❏ break (sth) down [ PHRV ] ေဝပံုခ်သည္။ ခြဲတမ္းခ် သည္။ Expenditure on the project breaks down as follows: wages £10m, plant £4m, raw materials £5m. See also BREAKDOWN ❏ break sth down [ PHRV ] ၁။ ထု႐ိုက္ဖ်က္ဆီးသည္။ ၿဖိဳသည္။ Firemen had to break the door down to reach the people trapped inside. ၂။ ၿဖိဳလွဲသည္။ ဖ်က္ဆီးသည္။ ေအာင္ႏိုင္သည္။ break down resistance/opposition. ❍ break down sb's reserve/shyness ❍ Attempts must be made to break down the barriers of fear and hostility which divide the two communities. ၃။ ဓာတ္ၿပိဳကြဲသည္၊ ပ်က္သည္။ Sugar and starch are broken down in the stomach. ❏ break sth from sth [ PHRV ] ခ်ဳိး(ယူ)သည္။ ဖဲ့(ယူ)သည္။ He broke a piece of bread from the loaf. ❏ break in [ PHRV ] ေဖာက္ထြင္း ဝင္ေရာက္သည္။ Burglars had broken in while we were away. See also BREAK-IN ❏ break-in n ေဖာက္ထြင္းမႈ။ Police are investigating a break-in at the bank. ❏ break sb/sth in [ PHRV ] ေလ့က်င့္ေပးသည္။ break in new recruits/a young horse. ❏ break in (on sth) [ PHRV ] ဝင္၍ၾကားျဖတ္သည္။ ဝင္ေႏွာက္သည္။ She longed to break in on their conversation but felt it would seem rude. ❏ break into sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေဖာက္ထြင္းဝင္ေရာက္သည္။ Our house was broken into by burglars last week. ၂။ ႐ုတ္တရက္ ထလုပ္သည္။ As the President's car arrived, the crowd broke into loud applause. ၃။ ႐ုတ္တရက္ ေျပးသည္၊ ဒုန္းစိုင္းသည္။ break into a trot/canter/gallop ❍ The man broke into a run when he saw the police. ၄။ အခ်ိန္စားသည္၊ ဖဲ့ယူသည္။ All this extra work I'm doing is breaking into my leisure time. ၅။ ( Brit ) အေသးအဖြဲ ကေလးအတြက္ ေငြစကၠဴအရြက္ႀကီး ဖ်က္သည္။ I can't pay you the 50p I owe you without breaking into a £5 note. ၆။ အေရးေပၚအတြက္ ထားသည့္အထဲမွ ယူသံုးသည္။ break into emergency supplies of food. ❏ break of day [ IDM ] ( fml ) အ႐ုဏ္တက္။ at break of day. ❏ break off [ PHRV ] စကားျဖတ္သည္။ စကားျပတ္သည္။ He broke off in the middle of a sentence. ❏ break (sth) off [ PHRV ] ကြၽတ္၊ ျပဳတ္ထြက္သည္။ ပဲ့ထြက္သည္။ ဖဲ့သည္။ The door-handle has broken off. ❍ She broke off a piece of chocolate and gave it to me. ❏ break sth off [ PHRV ] ရပ္ဆိုင္းသည္။ ဖ်က္သိမ္းသည္။ ျဖတ္ေတာက္သည္။ break off diplomatic relations (with a country) ❍ They've broken off their engagement/broken it off. ❏ break out [ PHRV ] (ကပ္၊ ေဘး၊ အေရးအခင္း စသည္) ႐ုတ္တရက္ျဖစ္ပြားသည္၊ ေပၚေပါက္သည္။ Fire broke out during the night. ❍ Rioting broke out between rival groups of fans. ❍ War broke out in1939. See also OUTBREAK ❏ break-out n ေထာင္ေဖာက္ေျပးျခင္း။ a mass break-out of prisoners. ❏ break out (of sth) [ PHRV ] ေဖာက္ထြက္သည္။ ႐ုန္းထြက္ သည္။ Several prisoners broke out of the jail. ❍ She felt the need to break out of her daily routine and do something exciting. See also BREAK-OUT ❏ break out in sth [ PHRV ] တစ္ျပင္လံုး ျပည့္သြားသည္၊ လႊမ္းသြားသည္။ Her face broke out in a rash. ❍ He broke out in a cold sweat (eg through fear). ❏ break through [ PHRV ] ထိုးေဖာက္ေက်ာ္လႊားသည္။ Scientists think they are beginning to break through in the fight against cancer. See also BREAKTHROUGH ❏ break through (sth) [ PHRV ] ၁။ ထိုးေဖာက္သည္။ ထိုးေဖာက္ထြက္သည္။ Demonstrators broke through the police cordon. ၂။ (ေန၊ လ) တိမ္ၾကားမွ ထြက္ေပၚလာသည္။ The sun broke through (the clouds) at last in the afternoon. ❏ break through sth [ PHRV ] ေက်ာ္လႊားသည္။ ေအာင္ႏိုင္ သည္။ break through sb's reserve/shyness. ❏ break up [ PHRV ] ၁။ လူစုခြဲသည္။ The meeting broke up at eleven o'clock. ၂။ ( Brit ) ေက်ာင္းပိတ္ရက္ စတင္သည္။ When do you break up for Christmas? ၃။ ( Brit ) ခ်ံဳးခ်ံဳး က်သည္။ ဗုန္းဗုန္းလဲသည္။ He was breaking up under the strain. ၄။ ( US ) ဣေႁႏၵမဆည္ႏိုင္ေအာင္ ရယ္ေမာသည္။ Woody Allen makes me just break up. ❏ break (sth) up [ PHRV ] ၁။ အစိတ္စိတ္အႁမႊာႁမႊာ ျဖစ္သည္။ အပိုင္းအစမ်ားျဖစ္ေအာင္ လုပ္သည္။ The ship broke up on the rocks. ❍ The ship was broken up for scrap metal. ၂။ အဆံုးသတ္သည္။ နိဂံုးခ်ဳပ္သည္။ Their marriage has broken up. ❍ They decided to break up the partnership. See also BREAKUP ❏ break sth up [ PHRV ] ၁။ လူအုပ္ကို အတင္းအက်ပ္ ခြဲသည္၊ တားသည္။ break up a fight ❍ Police were called in to break up the meeting. ၂။ စိတ္သည္၊ ပိုင္းသည္။ Sentences can be broken up into clauses. ၃။ အလ်ဥ္ျပတ္ ေစသည္။ A car radio helps to break up the monotony of a long drive. ❏ break up (with sb) [ PHRV ] အဆက္ျဖတ္သည္။ လက္တြဲျဖဳတ္သည္။ She's just broken up with her boyfriend. See also BREAKUP ❏ break with sb [ PHRV ] အဆက္ျဖတ္သည္။ လမ္းခြဲသည္။ break with one's girlfriend/boyfriend. ❏ break with sth [ PHRV ] စြန္႔လႊတ္သည္။ စြန္႔ပယ္သည္။ break with tradition/old habits/the past. ❏ make a break (for it) [ IDM ] ေထာင္မွ၊ ဖမ္းထားရာမွ ထြက္ေျပးသည္။

Examples

1. People were throwing stones and several windows were broken.
2. [break something in half/two etc] : Break the spaghetti in half and put it into the boiling water.
3. Shake the snow off the branches to prevent them from breaking.
4. [break into] : The glass slipped from her hand and broke into a dozen pieces.
5. She broke her leg playing football.
6. Older bones tend to break more easily.
7. We used to have a toaster
8. but it broke.
9. Don’t play with the camera – you’ll break it.
10. If you break the speed limit
11. the penalties are severe.
12. [break the law] : I don’t care what your reasons are. The fact is you’re breaking the law.
13. They have started drilling for oil in the region
14. breaking an agreement made five years ago.
15. Elliot claims that his business partner broke her contract.
16. The dog bit his leg
17. but fortunately didn’t break the skin.
18. Every so often a fish broke the still surface of the lake.
19. A campaign of violence and intimidation
20. that eventually broke the opposition’s will
21. [break someone’s spirit] : Twenty years in prison had not broken his spirit.
22. She didn’t break
23. even under hours of intense interrogation.
24. He was back in France when the news broke.
25. For some days after the scandal broke
26. the press could find out nothing about him.
27. The Daily Mirror broke the story on Christmas Eve.
28. I didn’t know how to break it to her.
29. Why don’t we break now and meet again tomorrow?
30. [break for] : OK
31. let’s break for lunch.
32. Everyone must work together to break the cycle of violence.
33. Their goal was to break the monopoly of the state telecoms corporation.
34. [break a deadlock] : The meeting went on late into the night in an attempt to break the deadlock.
35. [break someone’s hold/grip on something] : They are determined to break the army’s hold on power.
36. The party is looking to break its ties with the far right.
37. Hardly a sound broke the sleepy summer silence.
38. The peaceful mood was broken by the blare of a police siren.
39. Breaking a ten-year silence
40. he has talked for the first time about his wife’s suicide.
41. The day broke grey and dull.
42. The long hot spell finally broke.