It means to break, split, fractionate, separate, fracture, fragment, tear apart, destroy. Shattering. It can also mean interrupting, cracking, sectioning, hendering, drilling. Spoil, break, damage, decompose, render useless.
1º_ To destroy something by breaking it into pieces, in a broad sense is to ruin it and that it does not serve its function. 2º_ Appear something, show yourself at a stroke. In this case it is by figuratively breaking what hides it. 3º_ break .
Break : Momentarily stop the fermentation of a leudated mass by bending it several times on itself.