verb
- transitive to break, to snap, to shatter (to smash or rupture)
- figuratively, transitive to break (often in legal contexts), violate a law
- transitive to bend, flex or twist
- intransitive to fail; to go broke; to become bankrupt; to go out of business; to crash, to go bust, to go under (used in political, economic and business/financial/investment contexts)
- intransitive to break up
- Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico to kill
- reflexive to crack, to break, to shatter (putting the onus on the thing cracking itself, absolving any sentient subject of responsibility)
- figuratively, reflexive to crack, to break (e.g. crack under pressure, break after interrogation)
- Argentina, intransitive, slang to vomit after drinking too much alcohol