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vb. (en-third-person singularbreak off)
Usage examples of "breaks off".
At this point Bischoff breaks off and laughs, painfully and darkly, for a long time.
The creature breaks off the attack on Grau's group, sensing the people in the control room.
Brede breaks off the other end and offers the platter to Kadara, who shakes her head, still wiping her eyes.
Tommy reaches out and breaks off a eucalyptus leaf and rubs it into a little ball in his hand.
Creslin focuses on Hyel, and the thin officer breaks off his statement.
Myryan breaks off a chunk of the slightly stale bread and thrusts that at him as well.
He steps back outside, breaks off several green fir branches and carries them within.
It's cap-rock country, so usually where the land breaks off there's a drop of four to fourteen feet of sheer rock, then a steep slope off to the bottom, and you may go miles before you can find a spot to go down into the canyon, or a place to climb out.