ALL meanings of break someone's heart
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B b - noun break someone's heart an act or instance of breaking; disruption or separation of parts; fracture; rupture: There was a break in the window. 1
- noun break someone's heart an opening made by breaking; gap: The break in the wall had not been repaired. 1
- noun break someone's heart a rush away from a place; an attempt to escape: a break for freedom. 1
- noun break someone's heart a sudden dash or rush, as toward something: When the rain lessened, I made a break for home. 1
- noun break someone's heart a suspension of or sudden rupture in friendly relations. 1
- noun break someone's heart an interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with: Abstract painters made a break with the traditions of the past. 1
- noun break someone's heart an abrupt or marked change, as in sound or direction, or a brief pause: They noticed a curious break in his voice. 1
- noun break someone's heart Informal. an opportunity or stroke of fortune, especially a lucky one. a chance to improve one's lot, especially one unlooked for or undeserved. 1
- noun break someone's heart the breaks, Informal. the way things happen; fate: Sorry to hear about your bad luck, but I guess those are the breaks. 1
- noun break someone's heart a brief rest, as from work: The actors took a ten-minute break from rehearsal. 1
- noun break someone's heart Radio, Television. a brief, scheduled interruption of a program or broadcasting period for the announcement of advertising or station identification. 1
- noun break someone's heart Prosody. a pause or caesura. 1
- noun break someone's heart Jazz. a solo passage, usually of from 2 to 12 bars, during which the rest of the instruments are silent. 1
- noun break someone's heart Music. the point in the scale where the quality of voice of one register changes to that of another, as from chest to head. 1
- noun break someone's heart break dancing. 1
- noun break someone's heart a sharp and considerable drop in the prices of stock issues. 1
- noun break someone's heart Electricity. an opening or discontinuity in a circuit. 1
- noun break someone's heart Printing. one or more blank lines between two paragraphs. breaks, suspension points. 1
- noun break someone's heart the place, after a letter, where a word is or may be divided at the end of a line. 1
- noun break someone's heart a collapse of health, strength, or spirit; breakdown. 1
- noun break someone's heart Informal. an indiscreet or awkward remark or action; social blunder; faux pas. 1
- noun break someone's heart Billiards, Pool. a series of successful strokes; run. 1
- noun break someone's heart Pool. the opening play, in which the cue ball is shot to scatter the balls. 1
- noun break someone's heart Sports. a change in direction of a pitched or bowled ball. 1
- noun break someone's heart Horse Racing, Track. the start of a race. 1
- noun break someone's heart (in harness racing) an act or instance of a horse's changing from a trot or pace into a gallop or other step. 1
- noun break someone's heart Bowling. a failure to knock down all ten pins in a single frame. 1
- noun break someone's heart Boxing. an act or instance of stepping back or separating from a clinch: a clean break. 1
- noun break someone's heart any of several stages in the grinding of grain in which the bran is separated from the kernel. 1
- noun break someone's heart Botany. a sport. 1
- noun break someone's heart Journalism. the point at the bottom of a column where a printed story is carried over to another column or page. 1
- noun break someone's heart Nautical. the place at which a superstructure, deckhouse, or the like, rises from the main deck of a vessel. 1
- noun break someone's heart breaks, Physical Geography. an area dissected by small ravines and gullies. 1
- noun break someone's heart Mining. a fault or offset, as in a vein or bed of ore. 1
- verb with object break someone's heart to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase. 1
- verb with object break someone's heart to infringe, ignore, or act contrary to (a law, rule, promise, etc.): She broke her promise. 1
- verb with object break someone's heart to dissolve or annul (often followed by off): to break off friendly relations with another country. 1
- verb with object break someone's heart to fracture a bone of (some part of the body): He broke his leg. 1
- verb with object break someone's heart to lacerate; wound: to break the skin. 1
- verb with object break someone's heart to destroy or interrupt the regularity, uniformity, continuity, or arrangement of; interrupt: The bleating of a foghorn broke the silence. The troops broke formation. 1
- verb with object break someone's heart to put an end to; overcome; stop: His touchdown run broke the tie. She found it hard to break the cigarette habit. 1
- verb with object break someone's heart to discover the system, key, method, etc., for decoding or deciphering (a cryptogram), especially by the methods of cryptanalysis. 1
- verb with object break someone's heart to remove a part from (a set or collection): She had to break the set to sell me the two red ones I wanted. 1
- verb with object break someone's heart to exchange for or divide into smaller units or components: She broke a dollar bill into change. The prism broke the light into all the colors of the rainbow. 1
- verb with object break someone's heart to make a way through; penetrate: The stone broke the surface of the water. 1
- verb with object break someone's heart Law. to open or force one's way into (a dwelling, store, etc.). to contest (a will) successfully by judicial action. 1
- verb with object break someone's heart to make one's way out of, especially by force: to break jail. 1
- verb with object break someone's heart to better (a given score or record): He never broke 200 in bowling or 80 in golf. 1
- verb with object break someone's heart to disclose or divulge personally in speech or writing: He broke the good news to her at dinner. 1
- verb with object break someone's heart to solve: The police needed only a week to break that case. 1