break
Definitions
Noun
- Some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- An unexpected piece of good luck
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- A pause from doing something (as work)
- The act of breaking something
- A time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- Breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- The occurrence of breaking
- An abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- The opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- An act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- A sudden dash
- Any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- An escape from jail
Verb
- Terminate
- Become separated into pieces or fragments
- Render inoperable or ineffective
- Ruin completely
- Destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- Move away or escape suddenly
- Scatter or part
- Force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- Prevent completion
- Enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- Make submissive, obedient, or useful
- Fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- Surpass in excellence
- Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- Come into being
- Stop operating or functioning
- Interrupt a continued activity
- Make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- Curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- Lessen in force or effect
- Be broken in
- Come to an end
- Vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- Cause to give up a habit
- Give up
- Come forth or begin from a state of latency
- Happen or take place
- Cause the failure or ruin of
- Invalidate by judicial action
- Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- Reduce to bankruptcy
- Change directions suddenly
- Emerge from the surface of a body of water
- Break down, literally or metaphorically
- Do a break dance
- Exchange for smaller units of money
- Destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- Make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- Separate from a clinch, in boxing
- Go to pieces
- Break a piece from a whole
- Become punctured or penetrated
- Pierce or penetrate
- Be released or become known; of news
- Cease an action temporarily
- Interrupt the flow of current in
- Undergo breaking
- Find a flaw in
- Find the solution or key to
- Change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- Happen
- Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- Crack; of the male voice in puberty
- Fall sharply
- Fracture a bone of
- Diminish or discontinue abruptly
- Weaken or destroy in spirit or body
Fragment
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Consonant Match
As a Fragment
Words that contain the term "break".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | 1 | 88 |
| 2 | breakfast | 2 | 53 |
| 3 | breaking | 2 | 25 |
| 4 | breakdown | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | breaks | 1 | 12 |
| 6 | breakthrough | 2 | 6 |
| 7 | unbreakable | 4 | 5 |
| 8 | breakdowns | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | breakup | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | outbreaks | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | breakfasts | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | breakwater | 3 | 2 |
| 13 | heartbreaking | 3 | 2 |
| 14 | outbreak | 2 | 2 |
| 15 | breakage | 2 | 1 |
| 16 | breakaway | 3 | 1 |
| 17 | breaker | 2 | 1 |
| 18 | breakers | 2 | 1 |
| 19 | breakthroughs | 2 | 1 |
| 20 | breakups | 2 | 1 |
| 21 | daybreak | 2 | 1 |
| 22 | heartbreak | 2 | 1 |
| 23 | strikebreakers | 3 | 1 |
| 24 | backbreaking | 3 | 0 |
| 25 | break-in | 2 | 0 |
| 26 | breakable | 3 | 0 |
| 27 | breakeven | 3 | 0 |
| 28 | breakey | 2 | 0 |
| 29 | breakfield | 2 | 0 |
| 30 | breakmate | 2 | 0 |
| 31 | breakneck | 2 | 0 |
| 32 | breakout | 2 | 0 |
| 33 | breakouts | 2 | 0 |
| 34 | breaky | 2 | 0 |
| 35 | codebreaker | 3 | 0 |
| 36 | codebreakers | 3 | 0 |
| 37 | groundbreaking | 3 | 0 |
| 38 | heartbreaks | 2 | 0 |
| 39 | icebreaker | 3 | 0 |
| 40 | icebreakers | 3 | 0 |
| 41 | lawbreaker | 3 | 0 |
| 42 | lawbreakers | 3 | 0 |
| 43 | lawbreaking | 3 | 0 |
| 44 | strikebreaker | 3 | 0 |
| 45 | unbreakability | 6 | 0 |
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "break".
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "break" in a sentence.
Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "break" in a sentence.
Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "break" in the same piece of text.
Consonant Match
Words that contain the same consonants as the term "break".
Results:
Term
Definitions: 75
Fragments: 45
Sound Alikes: 2
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 5
Words that Precede: 3
Statistically Associated: 7
Consonant Matches: 17
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
📰 This Word in the News:
'Pain in the morning.' Water main break shuts down section of busy road by Merritt Parkway in New Canaan
May 13, 2026 News12 | Connecticut
May 13, 2026 News12 | Connecticut
Shallotte police searching for owner of vehicle in break-in, theft investigation
May 12, 2026 WECT | TV6
May 12, 2026 WECT | TV6
Every full at-bat from Shea Langeliers record-breaking 11 RBI performance at Baylor
May 12, 2026 NCAA.com
May 12, 2026 NCAA.com

