WordNet sense 1 (a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something):

intermission, interruption, pause, suspension

WordNet sense 2 (breaking of hard tissue such as bone):

fracture

WordNet sense 3 ((geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other):

fault, shift, faulting, geological fault

WordNet sense 4 (an unexpected piece of good luck):

good luck, happy chance

WordNet sense 5 (a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)):

breach, rift, rupture, severance

WordNet sense 6 (fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns):

violate, go against

WordNet sense 7 (enter someone's property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act):

break in

WordNet sense 8 (act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises):

offend, transgress, infract

WordNet sense 9 (discontinue an association or relation; go different ways):

part, separate, split, separate, break up, split up

WordNet sense 10 (assign to a lower position; reduce in rank):

bump, demote, relegate, kick downstairs

WordNet sense 11 (reduce to bankruptcy):

bankrupt, ruin, smash

WordNet sense 12 (move away or escape suddenly):

break out

WordNet sense 13 (break down, literally or metaphorically):

collapse, founder, give, cave in, fall in, give way

WordNet sense 14 (do a break dance):

break-dance, break dance

WordNet sense 15 (force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up):

burst, erupt

WordNet sense 16 (ruin completely):

bust

WordNet sense 17 (go to pieces):

wear, fall apart, wear out

WordNet sense 18 (break a piece from a whole):

break off, snap off

WordNet sense 19 (surpass in excellence):

better

WordNet sense 20 (a pause from doing something (as work)):

recess, respite, recess

WordNet sense 21 (be released or become known; of news):

get around, get out

WordNet sense 22 (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret):

disclose, discover, divulge, expose, impart, unwrap, reveal, expose, bring out, give away, let out, let on

WordNet sense 23 (cease an action temporarily):

intermit

WordNet sense 24 ((tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving):

break of serve

WordNet sense 25 (stop operating or functioning):

die, fail, go, break down, conk out, give out, go bad

WordNet sense 26 (lessen in force or effect):

damp, dampen, soften, weaken

WordNet sense 27 (an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity):

disruption, gap

WordNet sense 28 (the act of breaking something):

breakage, breaking

WordNet sense 29 (terminate):

interrupt

WordNet sense 30 (prevent completion):

discontinue, stop

WordNet sense 31 (happen):

develop, recrudesce

WordNet sense 32 (become fractured; break or crack on the surface only):

check, crack

WordNet sense 33 (become separated into pieces or fragments):

come apart

WordNet sense 34 (any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare):

open frame

WordNet sense 35 (an escape from jail):

breakout, jailbreak, gaolbreak, prisonbreak, prison-breaking