break

a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving

“he was up two breaks in the second set”

force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up

“break into tears”

any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare

“the break in the eighth frame cost him the match”

go to pieces

ruin completely

act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

“break a law”

become fractured; break or crack on the surface only

do a break dance

“Kids were break-dancing at the street corner”

prevent completion

“break off the negotiations”

become separated into pieces or fragments

make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

breaking of hard tissue such as bone

“the break seems to have been caused by a fall”