quebrantar
Meanings
Verb
1. to break (physically)
2. to break (e.g. someone's spirit, one's faith or trust, one's power) (figuratively)
3. to break, to breach (e.g. peace, the rules, a policy, a principle) (figuratively)
4. to break down, to be broken (typically used figuratively) (reflexive)
Examples3
La naturaleza nunca quebranta sus propias leyes.
Nature never breaks her own laws.
La naturaleza nunca quebranta sus propias reglas.
Nature never breaks her own laws.
La gente que quebranta la ley es castigada.
People who break the law are punished.