| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. An interruption in friendly relations: alienation, breach, break, disaffection, estrangement, rent2, rift, rupture, schism, split. See ASSEMBLE, HELP. 2. A usually narrow partial opening caused by splitting and rupture: break, chink, cleavage, cleft, crack, crevice, rift, split. See OPEN. | | VERB: | To undergo partial breaking: crack, fracture, rupture, split. See HELP.
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