break off

1. Interrupt before its natural or planned end (synset 200363458)
   "We had to cut short our vacation"
   is a type of: break, interrupt - terminate
   subtypes: hang up - interrupt a telephone conversation
   same as: break short, cut short
2. Prevent completion (synset 200363001)
   "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"
   is a type of: end, terminate - bring to an end or halt
   subtypes:

   • fracture - become fractured
   • bog, bog down - get stuck while doing something
   • break up, cut off, disrupt, interrupt - make a break in
   same as: break, discontinue, stop
3. Break off (a piece from a whole) (synset 201262255)
   "Her tooth chipped"
   is a type of: divide, part, separate - come apart
   subtypes:

   • flake, flake off, peel, peel off - come off in flakes or thin small pieces
   • exfoliate - come off in a very thin piece
   same as: break away, chip, chip off, come off
4. Break a piece from a whole (synset 201301517)
   "break a branch from a tree"
   is a type of: detach - cause to become detached or separated; take off
   same as: break, snap off
5. Break a small piece off from (synset 201262022)
   "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"
   is a type of: cut - separate with or as if with an instrument
   same as: chip, cut off, knap

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