Break and Secure

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Break

Break verb - To cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly.
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Secure is an antonym for break in topics: weaken, destroy, run away, emerge, better a performance.
Nearby Words: breach, breakdown, breaking, breakup, breakable

Secure

Secure verb - To drive danger or attack away from.
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Break is an antonym for secure.
Nearby Words: security, secured, securing, securely
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Common collocations

power break power secure power
hold break hold secure hold
contract break contract secure contract
control break control secure control
Other words: deal, rule.

Both words in one sentence

  • The Golden Girls had a case of this, where after a break-in Rose doesn't feel safe or secure anymore.
    Source: Unprovoked Pervert Payback
  • In Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts novel Only in Death, when Ludd and Beltayn had just managed to secure the water they desperately needed, Rawne had had to break the bad news from the battle.
    Source: Bearer of Bad News
  • Violently Protective Girlfriend The most obvious example comes in season 6's "Cloak" when Tony and Ziva break into a secure facility.
    Source: Violently Protective Girlfriend
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