Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| abruption | a sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. |
| avulse | to pluck or tear away by force. |
| banjax | (Sl.) to batter, destroy. |
| beshiver | to break into small pieces. |
| brast | (Dial.) to burst. |
| breach | a gap, a break; (verb) to break through. |
| breacher | one who breaches. |
| break | to reduce to fragments. |
| breakable | that can be broken; (noun) something that can be broken. |
| breakableness | the state of being breakable. |
| breakage | the act of breaking. |
| breakback | crushing. |
| breaker | one that breaks. |
| breakoff | an act of breaking off or stopping. |
| breakup | the act of breaking up. |
| brisance | (Fr.) the shattering or crushing effect of an explosion. |
| brisant | (Fr.) explosive, shattering. |
| brittle | easily broken (noun) a kind of hard toffee; (verb) to become brittle |
| brittlely | (Adv.) BRITTLE, easily broken. |
| brittly | (Adv.) BRITTLE, easily broken. |
| brokenly | (Adv.) BROKEN, not whole. |
| brokenness | the state of being broken. |
| bruckle | (Scots) liable to break, brittle. |
| brust | (Spenser) to burst. |
| burst | a sudden outbreak; (verb) to break open suddenly or violently. |
| bust | the upper front part of the human body, esp a woman's (verb) to break, shatter |
| busticate | (Coll.) to break. |
| cantle | a corner, edge or slice of anything; (verb) to break a piece from. |
| cataclasm | (Greek) disruption; breaking down. |
| cataclasmic | relating to or of the nature of a cataclasm. |
| chip | a small piece cut or broken off; (verb) to break a small piece from. |
| comminute | to crush, pulverize. |
| comminution | the act of comminuting. |
| conk | a disease of horse-chestnut trees (verb) to fail, break down |
| conkout | a situation where a car, machine, computer etc ceases to work. |
| contriturate | to pulverize. |
| crack | a sharp sound of breaking; (verb) to break without dividing into parts. |
| crankle | to bend, to twist. |
| crumb | a small bit or morsel of dry food, esp bread (verb) to break into crumbs |
| crumble | a sweet dish of stewed fruit (verb) to break into small pieces |
| delaminate | to split into layers. |
| delamination | separation into constituent layers. |
| diffract | to break up into segments or portions. |
| dilacerate | to rend or tear asunder. |
| dirempt | to separate, disunite. |
| diremption | separation into two. |
| disally | to part, as an alliance. |
| discerp | to separate. |
| discerption | the act of discerping. |
| discerptive | tending to discerp. |
| disconnect | to sever the connection of or between. |
| disconnectedly | (Adv.) DISCONNECTED. |
| disjoin | to separate. |
| disjunction | the act of disjoining. |
| disjuncture | the act of disjoining. |
| dislimb | to tear limb from limb; to dismember. |
| dislink | to unlink, separate. |
| dismember | to cut or tear a body limb from limb. |
| dispart | (Arch.) to part, split in two. |
| disrupt | to break up, break apart. |
| dissembly | the breaking up of an assembly. |
| disshiver | (Spenser) to shiver or break in pieces. |
| dissunder | (Arch.) to sunder. |
| disunion | the state of being disunited. |
| disunite | to separate. |
| disunity | lack of unity. |
| divellicate | to pull in pieces; to pluck apart. |
| dividant | (Shakesp.) divisible, divided. |
| divulse | to tear apart. |
| divulsion | the act of pulling or rendering apart or away. |
| divulsive | tending to pull asunder, tear, or rend. |
| elutriate | to separate by washing into finer portions. |
| elutriation | the act of elutriating. |
| enriven | (Spenser) torn. |
| erumpent | breaking or bursting out through the skin, as do certain fungus spores. |
| eruptive | breaking out or bursting forth (noun) a type of rock |
| eruptively | (Adv.) ERUPTIVE, bursting forth. |
| fiberise | to break into fibers. |
| fiberize | to break into fibers. |
| fissile | readily split. |
| fissility | the ability to be split. |
| fissive | relating to fission. |
| fissure | a narrow opening, a cleft; (verb) to cleave, divide. |
| flaw | a break or crack, a defect (verb) to make defective |
| flinder | a splinter or small fragment; (verb) to break to pieces. |
| fract | to break; to violate. |
| fractionise | to break up into fractions. |
| fractionize | to break up into fractions. |
| fracture | a break esp of a bone; (verb) to break. |
| fragment | a piece broken off; (verb) to break into pieces. |
| fragmentate | to reduce to fragments. |
| fragmentation | the act of fragmenting. |
| fragmentise | to reduce to fragments. |
| fragmentize | to reduce to fragments. |
| frangible | readily broken; breakable. |
| fritz | to become broken or start malfunctioning > FRITZES, FRITZING, FRITZED. |
| frush | (Scots) brittle, crumbly; (verb, Shakesp.) to break or bruise. |
| grind | to reduce to powder or small particle ) GROUNDEN. |
| inburst | a bursting in or into; (verb) to burst into. |
| knap | to snap, crack. |
| knapple | to break off with an abrupt, sharp noise. |
| konk | to fail, break down. |
| lacerate | to tear roughly. |
| laceration | the act of lacerating. |
| lacerative | having the power to lacerate. |
| loggat | a small log or piece of wood. |
| mammock | (Arch.) broken piece; (verb, Shakesp.) to tear something to shreds. |
| mangle | to cut, slash, or crush so as to disfigure. |
| mash | a pulpy mess (verb) to reduce to a pulpy mass |
| microcrack | a microscopic crack or fracture; (verb) to crack in this way. |
| microcracking | microscopic cracking. |
| mummock | (Arch.) a piece, a shred. |
| murl | (Scots) to crumble MURLY. |
| murly | (Scots) crumbly. |
| parter | one who, or which, parts or separates. |
| partible | that may be divided up or parted. |
| prorate | to divide or distribute proportionally; to assess pro rata. |
| pulverisation | the process of pulverising. |
| rend | to tear apart forcibly ) YRENT. |
| retear | to tear again. |
| rift | a cleft (verb) to make a rift in |
| rifty | full of rifts. |
| rip | a tear; (verb) to tear open or apart ) RIPT. |
| rive | to rend, tear apart. |
| riven | (PaP.) RIVE, to rend, tear apart. |
| scrunch | a crunch (verb) to crunch |
| shatter | a fragment (verb) to break into pieces |
| shatterer | something or someone that shatters. |
| shattering | of e.g news, devastating. |
| shatteringly | (Adv.) SHATTERING. |
| shattery | brittle. |
| skelf | (Scots) a splinter of wood, esp one embedded in the skin. |
| smash | a violent collision; (verb) to shatter violently. |
| smush | to crush. |
| snappingly | (Adv.) SNAPPING. |
| spail | a splinter or chip. |
| spale | (Scots) a splinter, chip. |
| spall | a splinter or chip; (verb) to splinter. |
| spalt | a splinter or chip; (verb) to splinter. |
| spelk | a splinter of wood. |
| splent | a contrivance for holding a broken bone, etc in position. |
| splinter | a piece of wood, metal, etc split off (verb) to split into sharp, slender pieces |
| splintery | given to splintering. |
| sunder | to break apart. |
| torn | (PaP) TEAR, to pull apart. |
| uncake | to break up a cake. |
| unform | to unmake. |
| unjoint | to disjoint. |
| unteam | to unyoke a team from. |
| upbreak | to break upwards; to force a way or passage to the surface. |
| upburst | to burst upwards. |