breaks
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
Sounds Like
Spelled Like
Words That Follow
Words That Precede
Statistically Associated
Consonant Match
As a Fragment
Words that contain the term "breaks".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breaks | 1 | 12 |
| 2 | outbreaks | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | heartbreaks | 2 | 0 |
Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "breaks".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | banks | 1 | 37 |
| 2 | blocks | 1 | 37 |
| 3 | bunks | 1 | 17 |
| 4 | brooks | 1 | 16 |
| 5 | brakes | 1 | 7 |
| 6 | black's | 1 | 6 |
| 7 | bricks | 1 | 6 |
| 8 | blacks | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | blokes | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | bank's | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | bankes | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | banks' | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | barkes | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | barks | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | basks | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | basques | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | blacks' | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | blake's | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | blakes | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | blech's | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | bloc's | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | bloch's | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | block's | 1 | 0 |
| 24 | blocs | 1 | 0 |
| 25 | bork's | 1 | 0 |
| 26 | brix | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | brock's | 1 | 0 |
| 28 | brook's | 1 | 0 |
| 29 | brooke's | 1 | 0 |
| 30 | brookes | 1 | 0 |
| 31 | brooks' | 1 | 0 |
| 32 | brox | 1 | 0 |
| 33 | bruck's | 1 | 0 |
| 34 | brucks | 1 | 0 |
| 35 | ebanks | 2 | 0 |
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "breaks".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | 1 | 88 |
| 2 | breakfast | 2 | 53 |
| 3 | remarks | 2 | 53 |
| 4 | breast | 1 | 11 |
| 5 | brakes | 1 | 7 |
| 6 | streaks | 1 | 6 |
| 7 | outbreaks | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | freaks | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | breakups | 2 | 1 |
| 10 | breakers | 2 | 1 |
| 11 | wreaks | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | breaky | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | breads | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | branks | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | reas | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | breakouts | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | brea | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | bras | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | beas | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | beak | 1 | 0 |
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "breaks" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|
Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "breaks" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|
Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "breaks" in the same piece of text.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | major | 2 | 2 |
Results:
Term
Definitions: 75
Fragments: 3
Sound Alikes: 35
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 1
Consonant Matches: 7
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
This Word in the News:
Customers accuse Whatnot of illegal gambling operation over sports card breaks, repacks
Mar 16, 2026 The New York Times
Mar 16, 2026 The New York Times

