Interrupt before its natural or planned end.
1 Raynor felt a renewed sense of urgency, and immediately cut the break short .
2 You may jerk it; it will still adhere to the skin, and after repeated trials often break short .
3 She led me to believe that she would give this up, and break short off, and keep herself free and sacred and pure for me.
4 The steering-head had broken short off at the inside of the hub.
5 The very sword of the state broke short in the king's hand.
6 So saying, my father shut the window and broke short the conference.
7 Steel struck steel: the blade broke short off at the haft.
8 He pulled and pulled until at length the tail was broken short off.
9 It is serrated and brittle, and on entering any object breaks short off.
10 Every other way that men can follow is broken short off by death.
11 Geoffrey had broken short off, being a person of absolute honesty.
12 I found one of my large hooks broken short off; the confounded reel!
13 It was of the commonest kind, and had broken short off in the wound.
14 The handle broke short off at the point where the helve meets the steel.
15 The top of the cedar on the south lawn had been broken short off.
16 The end broke short , and picking up the fragment he went to the door.
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