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1break someone's serve — break service or break someone s serve (tennis, etc) To win a game in which one s opponent is serving • • • Main Entry: ↑break * * * break someone’s serve/service/ phrase in tennis, to win a game in which your opponent is serving …
2break someone's serve — ► break someone s serve win a game in a tennis match against an opponent s service. Main Entry: ↑break …
3break someone's serve — win a game in a tennis match against an opponent s service. → break …
4break — ► VERB (past broke; past part. broken) 1) separate into pieces as a result of a blow, shock, or strain. 2) make or become inoperative; stop working. 3) interrupt (a continuity, sequence, or course). 4) fail to observe (a law, regulation, or… …
5break serve — break (someone s) serve (or service) win a game in a tennis match against an opponent s service …
6break someone's service — break someone’s serve/service/ phrase in tennis, to win a game in which your opponent is serving Thesaurus: tennishyponym sports events and competitionshyponym …
7break — break1 W1S1 [breık] v past tense broke [brəuk US brouk] past participle broken [ˈbrəukən US ˈbrou ] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(separate into pieces)¦ 2¦(bones)¦ 3¦(machines)¦ 4¦(rules/laws)¦ 5¦(promise/agreement)¦ 6¦(stop/rest)¦ 7¦(end something)¦ …
8break — break1 verb (past broke; past participle broken) 1》 separate into pieces as a result of a blow, shock, or strain. ↘(of waves) curl over and dissolve into foam. ↘(of the amniotic fluid surrounding a fetus) be discharged when the sac is… …
9break — 1 /breIk/ verb past tense broke, past participle broken 1 IN PIECES a) (T) to make something separate into two or more pieces, for example by hitting it, dropping it, or bending it: The thieves got in by breaking a window. | break sth in two/in… …
10break — [c]/breɪk / (say brayk) verb (broke or, Archaic, brake, broken or, Archaic, broke, breaking) – …
