afbreken — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abort verb To stop an action, plan, or process before it is finished, usually because of a problem.
- abrupt adj Happening suddenly and without warning.
- demolish verb To tear down or destroy a building or structure, usually deliberately.
- deplete verb To reduce the amount of; to remove (a substance from something)
- escape verb To get free from confinement, danger, or an unpleasant situation.
- interrupt verb To break in on someone who is speaking or on an ongoing action.
- pillory noun A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.
- stop verb To cease moving or to bring something to a halt.
- suspend verb To stop something temporarily, meaning to start it again later.
- wrench noun US: a hand tool used to grip and turn nuts, bolts, or pipes; called a spanner in British English.
Senses
afbreken is used for these senses in English:
- abort (computing) The function used to abort a process.
- abort (transitive, aeronautics) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]
- abort (transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.
- abrupt (transitive, archaic) To tear off or asunder. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]
- abscission (rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
- break down (transitive) To intentionally demolish; to pull down.
- demolish To devour; to eat up
- deplete (ambitransitive) To empty or unload, as the vessels of the human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
abort — full definition
- verb To stop an action, plan, or process before it is finished, usually because of a problem.
- verb (medical) To end a pregnancy before the fetus can survive outside the womb.
abrupt — full definition
- adj Happening suddenly and without warning.
- adj Blunt or curt in manner, verging on rude.
- adj Very steep, as if broken off sharply.