What does it mean to 'break someone'?

[99bottles]

I heard this idiom at an American series. From the context, I understood it means 'to make someone miserable'. But, on google, I found no phrases with that idiom. I did not even find a definition of it.

 

[emsr2d2]

I heard this idiom [STRIKE]at[/STRIKE] in an American series. From the context, I understood it means 'to make someone miserable'. But, on Google, I found no phrases with that idiom. I did not even find a definition of it.

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