'break off' definitions:

Interrupt before its natural or planned end; "We had to cut short our vacation" [syn: cut short, break short, break off]

Prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations" [syn: break, break off, discontinue, stop]

Break off (a piece from a whole); "Her tooth chipped" [syn: chip, chip off, come off, break away, break off]

Break a piece from a whole; "break a branch from a tree" [syn: break, break off, snap off]

Break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth" [syn: chip, knap, cut off, break off]