Break and Refrain

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Break

Break verb - To cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly.
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Refrain and break are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Refrain" instead a verb "Break".
Nearby Words: breach, breakdown, breaking, breakup, breakable

Refrain

Refrain verb - Resist doing something.
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Break and refrain are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Break" instead a verb "Refrain".
Nearby Words: refrained, refraining

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  • Music / Emotional Rescue Refrain from Assuming: "All About You" is often assumed to be about the break-up of Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg, but is in fact about his declining relationship with Mick Jagger.
    Source: Music / Emotional Rescue
  • Also invoked in chapter 55 where he has to refrain from using Hydra so as to not break his cover in front of some Thunderbolts.
    Source: Fights Like a Normal
  • For instance, "Break It All" has the refrain "But when the music start / don't stand there like a fool / and break it all / you listen me, break it all".
    Source: Gratuitous English / Music
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