break
/breɪk/ v [T] (past tense broke /broʊk/, past participle broken /ˈbroʊ·kən/) (NOT OBEY)Definition
› to fail to obey or follow a law, rule, or promise: He didn’t know he was breaking the law. My daughter got sick and I had to break my appointment.
(Definition of break v (NOT OBEY) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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