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pause suddenly, break off

v. prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"

chip, knap, cut off, break off

v. break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"

cut short, break short, break off

v. interrupt before its natural or planned end; "We had to cut short our vacation"

chip, chip off, come off, break away, break off

v. break off (a piece from a whole); "Her tooth chipped"

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stay, remain, rest

v. stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week"

bar

v. secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door"

prevent, keep

v. stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state; "We must prevent the cancer from spreading"; "His snoring kept me from falling asleep"; "Keep the child from eating the marbles"

straiten

v. squeeze together

adjust, conform, adapt

v. adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation"

cleave

v. make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock"

amputate, cut off

v. remove surgically; "amputate limbs"

dismember, take apart, discerp

v. divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war"

dismember

v. separate the limbs from the body; "the tiger dismembered the tourist"

truncate, cut short

v. make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"

fracture

v. break (a bone); "She broke her clavicle"

break

v. find a flaw in; "break an alibi"; "break down a proof"

carve, chip at

v. engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface; "carve one's name into the bark"

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