OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 45353

break off

Meanings (ES + gloss)
terminar
To discontinue abruptly.
Both families want the lovers to break off any relationship they may have.
When the yacht had passed the man resumed the conversation that her appearance had broken off.
interrumpir
To end abruptly, either temporarily or permanently.
Our school doesn't break off until July.
Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liqu…
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