Advance
Advance verb - Give a promotion to or assign to a higher position.
Usage example: Women tend not to advance in the major law firms
Break
Break verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Usage example: the final vote broke the deadlock
How words are described
| good | good advance | good break |
| full | full advance | full break |
| short | short advance | short break |
| complete | complete advance | complete break |
| Other adjectives: standard, single, small, real, big, little, main, new, major, red. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Mayuri heard about this power in advance and prepared for it by replacing all of his organs so Szayel would instead just break the old ones.
Source: Organ Dodge -
In a strange literal example of the trope name, the heroes have to break a bottle of expensive cognac to advance the plot in West Cobra.
Source: Video Game / Cobra Mission -
Mob of the Dead takes a break from the Maxis/Richtofen arc and doesn't advance the main plot, but it is in no means Lighter and Softer than the other maps.
Source: Video Game / Nazi Zombies
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