break reality: meaning & examples
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Meanings:
- To cause the normal rules of reality, physics, or a fictional universe's internal logic to fail or to be violated, often used in speculative, gaming, or technical contexts.
Examples
BetaThe glitch in the game’s code caused it to break reality, allowing players to walk through walls.
The glitch in the game’s code caused it to break reality, allowing players to walk through walls.
If you combine these two spells, you risk breaking reality and disrupting the entire simulation.
If you combine these two spells, you risk breaking reality and disrupting the entire simulation.
The novel’s plot intentionally breaks reality by blending dreams and waking life without clear boundaries.
The novel’s plot intentionally breaks reality by blending dreams and waking life without clear boundaries.
- To undermine or shatter someone's sense of what is plausible or believable; to produce an experience that feels impossible or surreal.
Examples
BetaThe surreal experience at the art installation completely broke my reality and left me questioning what was real.
The surreal experience at the art installation completely broke my reality and left me questioning what was real.
Watching that magician break reality with his impossible tricks made the audience gasp in disbelief.
Watching that magician break reality with his impossible tricks made the audience gasp in disbelief.
She felt like her sense of reality was broken after hearing such unbelievable news.
She felt like her sense of reality was broken after hearing such unbelievable news.
Examples:
- EN: coming I haven't eaten all day and I'm starving and are we too weak to add a simple please give me a break reality it's the last day of the stinking bed and I've got an 8:00 a.m. deadline ifES: Ellen: oh chico repartidor de comida CSS quien es viniendo no he comido en todo el día y estoy hambrientos y somos demasiado débiles para agregar una simple por favor dame un descanso realidad Es el último día de la cama apestosa. y tengo un plazo de 8:00 a.m. si que la comida no llegue pronto puedo
- EN: That could break reality.ES: Eso podría quebrantar la realidad.ID: Itu bisa merusak realitas.
- EN: Look, I'm not trying to break reality, and I definitely don't want to take your place.ID: Dengar, aku tidak mencoba untuk menghancurkan realitas, dan aku pastinya tidak ingin mengambil tempatmu.
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