Synonyms: break, break off, stop, discontinue
Definition: prevent completion
Usage: stop the project; break off the negotiations
Definition: bring to an end or halt
Usage: She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime; The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I
Synonyms: cut short, break off, break short
Definition: interrupt before its natural or planned end
Usage: We had to cut short our vacation
Similar words: break, interrupt
Definition: terminate
Usage: She interrupted her pregnancy; break a lucky streak; break the cycle of poverty
Synonyms: chip, break off, knap, cut off
Definition: break a small piece off from
Usage: chip the glass; chip a tooth
Synonyms: break away, break off, come off, chip, chip off
Definition: break off (a piece from a whole)
Usage: Her tooth chipped
Similar words: divide, separate, part
Definition: come apart
Usage: The two pieces that we had glued separated
Synonyms: snap off, break, break off
Definition: break a piece from a whole
Usage: break a branch from a tree
Similar words: detach
Definition: cause to become detached or separated; take off
Usage: detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it