To “break” something creates an image that is different from “attacking,” “destroying,” or “shattering.” It is less emotional and violent in its intent; it is somewhat matter-of-fact. It is fitting, then, that “break” is used in the Bible primarily to illustrate the Lord’s destruction of evil desires and false ideas – something that must be done to preserve us from harm, but not something done with malice.

8277. 'Have been drowned in the Sea Suph' means that they have shut themselves up in falsities arising from evil. This is clear from the meaning of 'being drowned', here by the waters of the Sea Suph, as shutting themselves up in falsities arising from evil. For falsities are meant by 'the waters' of that sea, 8137, 8138, and being shut up in by 'being drowned', since those in the hells are shut in and surrounded by falsities in the way that those being drowned are by water. Regarding their plunging themselves into those falsities, or shutting themselves up in them, see 7926, 8227, 8228.