Break and Fall off

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Break verb - To cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly.

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Fall off and break are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fall off" instead a verb "Break".

Nearby Words: breach, breakdown, breaking, breakup, breakable

Fall off verb - To turn away from a straight line or course.

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Break and fall off are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Break" instead a verb "Fall off".

Foreshadowing: Luz doesn't like Leslie rising war Winds, saying she'd "fall off and break her neck", but this is what happens to Luz.

Source: Film / Giant
However, if you are wearing, for example, a cursed armor and you physically change form, such as drinking a potion that transforms you into a dragon ten times your original size, the cursed armor will break and fall off.

Source: The Dev Team Thinks Of Everything / NetHack
You pick up the first book... and your reading glasses fall off and break.

Source: Fate Worse Than Death / Live-Action TV

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