Break
Both words in one sentence
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Hume: You wouldn't dare break the spirit of that wretched colt the way you just crushed your own daughter.
Source: Film / The Man from Snowy River - Harry swims through a growing avalanche of them when he should actually be pretty quickly crushed, or should at least break a lot of bones and be rendered immobile.
Source: Hollywood Density - With a crushed rib there, a fracture there, here a break, there a break, everywhere a break-break!
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