Adjective

1. Physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
2. Not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly
3. (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded

Verb

1. Terminate
2. Become separated into pieces or fragments
3. Render inoperable or ineffective
4. Ruin completely
5. Destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
6. Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
7. Move away or escape suddenly
8. Scatter or part
9. Force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
10. Prevent completion
11. Enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
12. Make submissive, obedient, or useful
13. Fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
14. Surpass in excellence
15. Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
16. Come into being
17. Stop operating or functioning
18. Interrupt a continued activity
19. Make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
20. Curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
21. Lessen in force or effect
22. Be broken in
23. Come to an end
24. Vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
25. Cause to give up a habit
26. Give up
27. Come forth or begin from a state of latency
28. Happen or take place
29. Cause the failure or ruin of
30. Invalidate by judicial action
31. Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
32. Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
33. Reduce to bankruptcy
34. Change directions suddenly
35. Emerge from the surface of a body of water
36. Break down, literally or metaphorically
37. Do a break dance
38. Exchange for smaller units of money
39. Destroy the completeness of a set of related items
40. Make the opening shot that scatters the balls
41. Separate from a clinch, in boxing
42. Go to pieces
43. Break a piece from a whole
44. Become punctured or penetrated
45. Pierce or penetrate
46. Be released or become known; of news
47. Cease an action temporarily
48. Interrupt the flow of current in
49. Undergo breaking
50. Find a flaw in
51. Find the solution or key to
52. Change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
53. Happen
54. Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
55. Crack; of the male voice in puberty
56. Fall sharply
57. Fracture a bone of
58. Diminish or discontinue abruptly
59. Weaken or destroy in spirit or body