Break and Lay

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Break

Break verb - To cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly.
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Antonyms for Break
Lay is an antonym for break.
Nearby Words: breach, breakdown, breaking, breakup, breakable

Lay

Lay verb - To arrange something in a certain spot or position.
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Synonyms for Lay
Antonyms for Lay
Break is an antonym for lay in make smooth topic.
Nearby Words: laying, laid
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Similar words of lay

Common collocations

people break people lay people
hold break hold lay hold
hand break hand lay hand
way break way lay way
Other words: cycle, siege, curse, arms, eggs, times.

Both words in one sentence

  • Anime / Madlax Fingore: Do not lay your hands upon Margaret while Elenore is less than four hundred kilometers away—she will break them.
    Source: Anime / Madlax
  • After they lay out these rules, they proceed to break them in every succeeding episode and explaining it away by having a scientist say something polysyllabic.
    Source: New Rules as the Plot Demands
  • They go and make everything super-ornate to please the "Machine Spirit" who animates their technology and think that if they lay off the pomp, everything will break.
    Source: Cool, but Inefficient
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