Break and Render

Break

Break verb - To change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language.

Usage example: Alan Turing and the Bletchley Park mathematicians broke the Enigma code being used by the Nazis

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

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

Render verb - To give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress.

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Break and render are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Break" instead a verb "Render".

Nearby Words: rend, rendered, rendering, rendition, rending

Gríma Wormtongue is a student of Saruman's, and uses similar non-magical techniques on Théoden to render him helpless and hopeless against Saruman, and on Éowyn in order to break her resolve and drive her to desperation.

Source: Break Them by Talking
LSD does not break your chromosomes and render you infertile (though some of the things now sold as it might cause some nasty side effects.) Scare 'Em Straight becomes laughable at a point.

Source: Artistic License Pharmacology
When her Semblance is activated, her blows can render boulders into ash and break a stadium designed to take insane amounts of punishment.

Source: Pint-Sized Powerhouse

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