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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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 |
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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.
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