英语词汇“to break off”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. transitive. [ < sense 27.] To discontinue (anything) abruptly; to put a forcible, abrupt, or definite end to.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to > suddenly or abruptly (an action or person)

break1330

to break offc1340

to take up1530

to cut off1576

stunt1603

to cut up short1607

to cut short1611

pawl1797

to sew up1837

to stop short1837

burst1842

to pull up1861

c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. 29 Þou sall..breke of þat.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. FFFiii^v Vouchsafe..to interrupt & breke of the swete quyetnesse of contemplacion.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 117 Now wil I breake off my intended walke.

1611 Bible (King James) Dan. iv. 27 Breake off thy sinnes by righteousnesse.

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης i. 2 The first [parliament] he broke off at his comming to the Crown.

1712 J. Hughes Spectator No. 554. ⁋7 I might break off the account of him here.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 295. ¶4 We find several Matches broken off upon this very Head.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 255 The conferences were soon broken off.

2. intransitive. To leave off or stop abruptly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > stop short in some activity

to break offc1340

persist1563

check1635

to stop short1727

to pull in1780

jib1812

stall1923

c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. 29 When þou hase bene besye vwtwarde..þou sall breke offe and come agayne to þi prayers.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xii. 139 When we begin to speake a thing, and breake of in the middle way.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 262 Not one word more my Maides, break off, break off.

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 122 We must not here breake off; let us continue on the story.

1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. ii. 43 Upon this their Consultations broke off.

1841 T. B. Macaulay in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) II. ix. 111 He may break off in the middle of a story.

3. = sense 32.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement [verb (intransitive)] > diverge from course

bowa1000

swervec1330

wrya1350

crookc1380

to turn asidea1382

depart1393

decline14..

wryc1400

divert1430

desvoy1481

wave1548

digress1552

prevaricate1582

yaw1584

to turn off1605

to come off1626

deviate1635

sag1639

to flinch out1642

deflect1646

de-err1657

break1678

verge1693

sheera1704

to break off1725

lean1894

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 142 She found the Shore break off a little, and soon after, a little more.

1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. i. 30 The front rank break off to the left, the rear rank to the right.

4. transitive. [ < sense 33.] To sever or detach completely by breaking.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > break off

breaka1200

to break away1420

to break off1530

brit1578

twig1725

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 465/1 I breake of a pece or porcyon of a thyng from the hole.

1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xxxii. 2 Breake off the golden earerings which are in the eares of your wiues.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 15. ⁋1 To the End of that Stamen of Being in themselves which was broke off by Sickness.

1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. Cornw. 4 Part of one of them has been broke off.

5. intransitive. To detach oneself abruptly from.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > separate [verb (intransitive)] > detach oneself abruptly

to break offa1616

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. ii. 121 I must from this enchanting Queene breake off .

1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. x. 231 A Jewish sect..which professes to have broken off from Israel at this time.

6. [ < sense 34.] To sever connection or relation (with), to separate.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > hatred > quarrel or falling out > quarrel or fall at variance [verb (intransitive)]

varyc1450

quarrel1530

square1530

to fall offa1535

breach1573

snarl1593

snarl1597

breaka1616

to break offa1645

to cast out1730

to get wrong1803

split1835

split1843

a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) iii. iii. 93 To breake off instantly with the enemies of his greatnesse and religion.

1667 S. Pepys Diary 27 July (1974) VIII. 355 The King and my Lady Castlemayne are quite broke off and she is gone away.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 36. ⁋1 False Lovers, and their shallow Pretences for breaking off.

1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. vi. 158 Her ungrateful lover..was now occupied with the means, not indeed of breaking off with her entirely, but, [etc.].

7. transitive. To draw off sharply, withdraw completely from.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to

astintc700

stathea1200

atstuntc1220

to put an end toa1300

to set end ofa1300

batec1300

stanch1338

stinta1350

to put awayc1350

arrestc1374

finisha1375

terminec1390

achievea1393

cease1393

removec1405

terminate?a1425

stop1426

surceasec1435

resta1450

discontinue1474

adetermine1483

blina1500

stay1525

abrogatea1529

suppressa1538

to set in or at stay1538

to make stay of1572

depart1579

check1581

intercept1581

to give a stop toa1586

dirempt1587

date1589

period1595

astayc1600

nip1600

to break off1607

snape1631

sist1635

to make (a) stop of1638

supersede1643

assopiatea1649

periodizea1657

unbusya1657

to put a stop to1679

to give the holla to1681

to run down1697

cessate1701

end1737

to choke off1818

stopper1821

punctuate1825

to put a stopper on1828

to take off ——1845

still1850

to put the lid on1873

on the fritz1900

to close down1903

to put the fritz on something1910

to put the bee on1918

switch1921

to blow the whistle on1934

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 135 Then must the retreat be sounded, and..the dogs be broken off.

1701 W. Paterson Proposals Council of Trade 110 At whose pains..ought the people of this Kingdom, be broken off, from this habit of Idleness.

8. [ < sense 28b.] To intercept and repel.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > absence of movement > render immobile [verb (transitive)] > stop the movement of > stop course or flow of something

stinta1330

stop1393

intercept1545

blench1602

hain1636

screen1657

to break off1791

to turn off1822

to break one's fall1849

1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §338 A sloping Bank..to break off the fury of the sea.

†9. intransitive. [ < sense 24.] To start, begin. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)]

beginc1000

onginOE

aginOE

ginc1175

to go tillc1175

to take onc1175

comsea1225

fanga1225

to go toc1275

i-ginc1275

commencec1320

to get (also get down, go, go adown, set, set down) to workc1400

to lay to one's hand(sc1405

to put to one's hand (also hands)c1410

to set toc1425

standa1450

to make to1563

to fall to it1570

to start out1574

to fall to1577

to run upon ——1581

to break off1591

start1607

to set in1608

to set to one's hands1611

to put toa1616

to fall ona1625

in1633

to fall aboard1642

auspicatea1670

to set out1693

to enter (into) the fray1698

open1708

to start in1737

inchoate1767

to set off1774

go1780

start1785

to on with1843

to kick off1857

to start in on1859

to steam up1860

to push off1909

to cut loose1923

to get (also put) the show on the road1941

to get one's arse in gear1948

1591 J. Lyly Sapho & Phao ii. iii. 177 Then shall wee have sweet musique. But come, I will not breake off.

10. Nautical. (See quot. 1867.)

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > head in a certain course or direction > drop away from direct course

to fall off1569

yaw1584

sag1633

bag1836

to break off1867

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. at Break She breaks off from her course: applied only when the wind will not allow of keeping the course; applies only to ‘close-hauled’ or ‘on the wind’. Broken off, fallen off, in azimuth, from the course.

单词	to break off
释义	> as lemmas to break off to break off 1. transitive. [ < sense 27.] To discontinue (anything) abruptly; to put a forcible, abrupt, or definite end to. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to > suddenly or abruptly (an action or person) break1330 to break offc1340 to take up1530 to cut off1576 stunt1603 to cut up short1607 to cut short1611 pawl1797 to sew up1837 to stop short1837 burst1842 to pull up1861 c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. 29 Þou sall..breke of þat. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. FFFiii^v Vouchsafe..to interrupt & breke of the swete quyetnesse of contemplacion. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 117 Now wil I breake off my intended walke. 1611 Bible (King James) Dan. iv. 27 Breake off thy sinnes by righteousnesse. View more context for this quotation 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης i. 2 The first [parliament] he broke off at his comming to the Crown. 1712 J. Hughes Spectator No. 554. ⁋7 I might break off the account of him here. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 295. ¶4 We find several Matches broken off upon this very Head. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 255 The conferences were soon broken off. 2. intransitive. To leave off or stop abruptly. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > stop short in some activity to break offc1340 persist1563 check1635 to stop short1727 to pull in1780 jib1812 stall1923 c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. 29 When þou hase bene besye vwtwarde..þou sall breke offe and come agayne to þi prayers. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xii. 139 When we begin to speake a thing, and breake of in the middle way. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 262 Not one word more my Maides, break off, break off. View more context for this quotation 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 122 We must not here breake off; let us continue on the story. 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. ii. 43 Upon this their Consultations broke off. 1841 T. B. Macaulay in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) II. ix. 111 He may break off in the middle of a story. 3. = sense 32. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement [verb (intransitive)] > diverge from course bowa1000 swervec1330 wrya1350 crookc1380 to turn asidea1382 depart1393 decline14.. wryc1400 divert1430 desvoy1481 wave1548 digress1552 prevaricate1582 yaw1584 to turn off1605 to come off1626 deviate1635 sag1639 to flinch out1642 deflect1646 de-err1657 break1678 verge1693 sheera1704 to break off1725 lean1894 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 142 She found the Shore break off a little, and soon after, a little more. 1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. i. 30 The front rank break off to the left, the rear rank to the right. 4. transitive. [ < sense 33.] To sever or detach completely by breaking. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > break off breaka1200 to break away1420 to break off1530 brit1578 twig1725 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 465/1 I breake of a pece or porcyon of a thyng from the hole. 1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xxxii. 2 Breake off the golden earerings which are in the eares of your wiues. View more context for this quotation 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 15. ⁋1 To the End of that Stamen of Being in themselves which was broke off by Sickness. 1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. Cornw. 4 Part of one of them has been broke off. 5. intransitive. To detach oneself abruptly from. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > separate [verb (intransitive)] > detach oneself abruptly to break offa1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. ii. 121 I must from this enchanting Queene breake off . View more context for this quotation 1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. x. 231 A Jewish sect..which professes to have broken off from Israel at this time. 6. [ < sense 34.] To sever connection or relation (with), to separate. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > quarrel or falling out > quarrel or fall at variance [verb (intransitive)] varyc1450 quarrel1530 square1530 to fall offa1535 breach1573 snarl1593 snarl1597 breaka1616 to break offa1645 to cast out1730 to get wrong1803 split1835 split1843 a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) iii. iii. 93 To breake off instantly with the enemies of his greatnesse and religion. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 27 July (1974) VIII. 355 The King and my Lady Castlemayne are quite broke off and she is gone away. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 36. ⁋1 False Lovers, and their shallow Pretences for breaking off. 1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. vi. 158 Her ungrateful lover..was now occupied with the means, not indeed of breaking off with her entirely, but, [etc.]. 7. transitive. To draw off sharply, withdraw completely from. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to astintc700 stathea1200 atstuntc1220 to put an end toa1300 to set end ofa1300 batec1300 stanch1338 stinta1350 to put awayc1350 arrestc1374 finisha1375 terminec1390 achievea1393 cease1393 removec1405 terminate?a1425 stop1426 surceasec1435 resta1450 discontinue1474 adetermine1483 blina1500 stay1525 abrogatea1529 suppressa1538 to set in or at stay1538 to make stay of1572 depart1579 check1581 intercept1581 to give a stop toa1586 dirempt1587 date1589 period1595 astayc1600 nip1600 to break off1607 snape1631 sist1635 to make (a) stop of1638 supersede1643 assopiatea1649 periodizea1657 unbusya1657 to put a stop to1679 to give the holla to1681 to run down1697 cessate1701 end1737 to choke off1818 stopper1821 punctuate1825 to put a stopper on1828 to take off ——1845 still1850 to put the lid on1873 on the fritz1900 to close down1903 to put the fritz on something1910 to put the bee on1918 switch1921 to blow the whistle on1934 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 135 Then must the retreat be sounded, and..the dogs be broken off. 1701 W. Paterson Proposals Council of Trade 110 At whose pains..ought the people of this Kingdom, be broken off, from this habit of Idleness. 8. [ < sense 28b.] To intercept and repel. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > render immobile [verb (transitive)] > stop the movement of > stop course or flow of something stinta1330 stop1393 intercept1545 blench1602 hain1636 screen1657 to break off1791 to turn off1822 to break one's fall1849 1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §338 A sloping Bank..to break off the fury of the sea. †9. intransitive. [ < sense 24.] To start, begin. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] beginc1000 onginOE aginOE ginc1175 to go tillc1175 to take onc1175 comsea1225 fanga1225 to go toc1275 i-ginc1275 commencec1320 to get (also get down, go, go adown, set, set down) to workc1400 to lay to one's hand(sc1405 to put to one's hand (also hands)c1410 to set toc1425 standa1450 to make to1563 to fall to it1570 to start out1574 to fall to1577 to run upon ——1581 to break off1591 start1607 to set in1608 to set to one's hands1611 to put toa1616 to fall ona1625 in1633 to fall aboard1642 auspicatea1670 to set out1693 to enter (into) the fray1698 open1708 to start in1737 inchoate1767 to set off1774 go1780 start1785 to on with1843 to kick off1857 to start in on1859 to steam up1860 to push off1909 to cut loose1923 to get (also put) the show on the road1941 to get one's arse in gear1948 1591 J. Lyly Sapho & Phao ii. iii. 177 Then shall wee have sweet musique. But come, I will not breake off. 10. Nautical. (See quot. 1867.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > head in a certain course or direction > drop away from direct course to fall off1569 yaw1584 sag1633 bag1836 to break off1867 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. at Break She breaks off from her course: applied only when the wind will not allow of keeping the course; applies only to ‘close-hauled’ or ‘on the wind’. Broken off, fallen off, in azimuth, from the course. extracted from breakv. to break off a. Expressing separation from attachment, contact, or position on: not on or touching; (so as to be) loose or separate; as in to break off, cast off, cut off, put off, shake off, take off, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > absence > [adverb] offeOE outena1200 hereout?c1225 wayc1275 orf1845 α. eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. xxxv. 86 Smire mid hunige þæt þy þe raþor sio hryfing of fealle. OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) v. 30 Gyf þin swiðre hand þe aswice, aceorf hi of, & awurp hi fram þe. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 656 Ic wille..þæt þær ne be numen of na geld na gaule. c1175 ( Homily: Hist. Holy Rood-tree (Bodl. 343) (1894) 28 He mid his sweorde hire þæt heafod of asloh. c1300 St. John Baptist (Laud) 98 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 32 Þo is heued was of i-smite. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. v. 170 (MED) Clement þe Cobelere caste of his cloke. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 52 Y wole leie myn arme to be smyte of. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 30 He smote a knyght on the templis that hede and helme wente of to the erthe. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) v. 641 Bot the king..with a wysk the hed of-strak. ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) ii. xix. sig. O iij ^v To cut of from any Trapezium..what part therof ye list. 1568 W. Turner Herbal iii. 54 Yelowe scales: whiche with a light occasion fall of. a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 449 He..of his claithis suddantlie hes done. 1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 67 The taking of the Plumets of a clocke to make it goe in the better Order. β. lOE Canterbury Psalter: Canticles xvi. 8 Ego autem evaginato ab eo ipsius gladio amputavi caput eius : ic soðliches atæh from him his hagen sweord & achearf his heauod off.a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 29 Ȝif þin hefet were offe.c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 78 Hwen þe rinde is offe..hwiteð hit utewið.c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xix. 7 To ȝeue a litil boke of forsakynge, and to leeue off [v.r. forsake; L. dimittere].a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 172^v In þe seuenþe ȝere..þay brennen offe þe brestes and þere fore þey were y-clepyd Amozones.?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 31 (MED) Do off þi schone of þi fete.c1440 Prose Life Alexander (Thornton) (1913) 71 (MED) Of sum þay bate offe þe nese; of sum þe eres.1535 Bible (Coverdale) Song of Sol. v. 3 I haue put off my cote.1568 E. Tilney Brief Disc. Mariage (new ed.) sig. Civ^v [He] bit off his owne tongue.1637 Decree Starre-Chamber conc. Printing §30 sig. H2^v In the pulling off the knots.1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iii. 56 Good steel breaks short off, all gray.1733 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (ed. 9) I. 8 He took aff his bonnet.a1756 E. Haywood New Present (1771) 43 Let it stew..then strain it off.1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales II. 154 The ball..struck one of the metal buttons on the breast of my coat, and glanced off.1886 Manch. Examiner 22 Feb. 6/1 The entire surface of a country..divided off into farmsteads.1929 E. Bowen Last September I. v. 58 Hercules tore off the tips of the bland leaves which kept slapping against his forehead.1967 G. Greene Chagrin in Coll. Stories (1972) 49 She took off thick winter gloves with a wringing gesture which made me think of handkerchiefs wet with grief.2001 Daily Tel. 9 July 3/3 A boy of eight has had his arm sewn back on after it was bitten off by a shark. extracted from offadv.prep.n.adj. to break off a. So as to interrupt continuity or cause discontinuance, as in to break off, cut off, declare off, leave off, switch off, turn off, etc. ΚΠ α. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 377 Leve of [L Desiste], Alwyn, wiþ þy good wille. a1425 (?a1400) Bk. Priue Counseling in P. Hodgson Cloud of Unknowing (1944) 171 (MED) It is speedful sumtyme to leue of þi corious worching in þi wittes. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 174 Is nane sa gude as leif of, and mak na mair stryfe. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. v. sig. Dd4 His deuotion..Breaking of. View more context for this quotation β. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 31^v It will soone wax barraine, and leave off fruit bearing.1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 43 Upon Saturday..they break off worke sooner by an houre.1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 350 She was the occasion of my Ruin, for she had persuaded me to go on, when I would have left off.1818 Sporting Mag. 3 91 The match went off, and all bets were declared void.1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) II. 69 The Duke has declared off, and the wounded lover does not seem to be anxious to make his proposals of marriage.1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. xx. 309 He turned off the gas, and kissed the picture in the dark.1892 Bookman Oct. 27/2 Zola began by being an idealist. He has not left off being one.1934 F. S. Fitzgerald Tender is Night i. xxiii. 115 Claude, who was checking stock, broke off his work..to make Abe a pick-me-up.1970 D. Brown Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee vi. 132 Their grand strategy soon became apparent—..cut off supplies for Carrington's troops, isolate them, and attack.1993 N.Y. Times 13 Apr. a12/1 The authorities cut off water and electricity to the cellblock. extracted from offadv.prep.n.adj. < as lemmas
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