break someone's service

break someone's service
break someone’s serve/service/ phrase
in tennis, to win a game in which your opponent is serving
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Main entry: break

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  • break someone's serve — break service or break someone s serve (tennis, etc) To win a game in which one s opponent is serving • • • Main Entry: ↑break * * * break someone’s serve/service/ phrase in tennis, to win a game in which your opponent is serving …   Useful english dictionary

  • break someone's serve — ► break someone s serve win a game in a tennis match against an opponent s service. Main Entry: ↑break …   English terms dictionary

  • break someone's serve — win a game in a tennis match against an opponent s service. → break …   English new terms dictionary

  • break — ► VERB (past broke; past part. broken) 1) separate into pieces as a result of a blow, shock, or strain. 2) make or become inoperative; stop working. 3) interrupt (a continuity, sequence, or course). 4) fail to observe (a law, regulation, or… …   English terms dictionary

  • break serve — break (someone s) serve (or service) win a game in a tennis match against an opponent s service …   Useful english dictionary

  • break — [c]/breɪk / (say brayk) verb (broke or, Archaic, brake, broken or, Archaic, broke, breaking) – …  

  • break — break1 [ breık ] (past tense broke [ brouk ] ; past participle broken [ broukən ] ) verb *** ▸ 1 separate into pieces ▸ 2 fail to obey rules ▸ 3 make a hole/cut ▸ 4 destroy someone s confidence ▸ 5 when people learn news ▸ 6 stop for a short time …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • break */*/*/ — I UK [breɪk] / US verb Word forms break : present tense I/you/we/they break he/she/it breaks present participle breaking past tense broke UK [brəʊk] / US [broʊk] past participle broken UK [ˈbrəʊkən] / US [ˈbroʊkən] 1) [transitive] to make… …   English dictionary

  • break — break1 verb (past broke; past participle broken) 1》 separate into pieces as a result of a blow, shock, or strain.     ↘(of waves) curl over and dissolve into foam.     ↘(of the amniotic fluid surrounding a fetus) be discharged when the sac is… …   English new terms dictionary

  • break service — phrasal of a mare : to fail to conceive * * * break service or break someone s serve (tennis, etc) To win a game in which one s opponent is serving • • • Main Entry: ↑break …   Useful english dictionary

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