BREAK SHORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does break short mean? 

• BREAK SHORT (verb)
  The verb BREAK SHORT has 1 sense:

1. interrupt before its natural or planned end

  Familiarity information: BREAK SHORT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREAK SHORT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Interrupt before its natural or planned end

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

break off; break short; cut short

Context example:

We had to cut short our vacation

Hypernyms (to "break short" is one way to...):

break; interrupt (terminate)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "break short"):

hang up (interrupt a telephone conversation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something