Careful Words

broke (n.)

broke (v.)

broke (adj.)

Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man,

And broke the die, in moulding Sheridan.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Monody on the Death of Sheridan. Line 117.

You have displac'd the mirth, broke the good meeting,

With most admir'd disorder.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.