| break | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: breakage, breaking |
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| (noun) an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Synonyms: disruption, gap, interruption |
| (noun) a sudden dash | - |
| (noun) the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool | - |
| (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
| (noun) a pause from doing something (as work) | Synonyms: recess, respite, time out |
| (noun) any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare | Synonyms: open frame |
| (noun) (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving | Synonyms: break of serve |
| (noun) some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity | Synonyms: interruption |
| (noun) an unexpected piece of good luck | Synonyms: good luck, happy chance |
| (noun) the occurrence of breaking | - |
| (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, falling out, rift, rupture, severance |
| (noun) an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion) | - |
| (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift |
| (noun) breaking of hard tissue such as bone | Synonyms: fracture |
| (noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: intermission, interruption, pause, suspension |
| breakability | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: fragility, frangibility, frangibleness |
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| breakable | (noun) an article that is fragile and easily broken | - |
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| breakableness | (noun) the consistency of something that breaks under pressure | - |
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| breakage | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: break, breaking |
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| (noun) reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use | - |
| (noun) the quantity broken | - |
| breakaway | (noun) the act of breaking away or withdrawing from | Synonyms: breaking away |
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| breakax | (noun) West Indian timber tree having very hard wood | Synonyms: break-axe, breakaxe, Sloanea jamaicensis |
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| breakaxe | (noun) West Indian timber tree having very hard wood | Synonyms: break-axe, breakax, Sloanea jamaicensis |
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| breakdown | (noun) the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue | Synonyms: dislocation |
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| (noun) an analysis into mutually exclusive categories | Synonyms: partitioning |
| (noun) a cessation of normal operation | Synonyms: equipment failure |
| (noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: decomposition, putrefaction, rot, rotting |
| (noun) (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance | Synonyms: chemical decomposition reaction, decomposition, decomposition reaction |
| (noun) a mental or physical breakdown | Synonyms: crack-up |
| breaker | (noun) a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded | Synonyms: circuit breaker |
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| (noun) waves breaking on the shore | Synonyms: breakers, surf |
| (noun) a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone | Synonyms: ledgeman |
| breakers | (noun) waves breaking on the shore | Synonyms: breaker, surf |
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| breakfast | (noun) the first meal of the day (usually in the morning) | - |
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| breaking | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: break, breakage |
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| breakout | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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| breakstone | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga | Synonyms: rockfoil, saxifrage |
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| breakthrough | (noun) a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense | - |
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| (noun) making an important discovery | - |
| (noun) a productive insight | Synonyms: discovery, find |
| breakup | (noun) the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations) | Synonyms: dissolution |
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| (noun) coming apart | Synonyms: detachment, separation |
| breakwater | (noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: bulwark, groin, groyne, jetty, mole, seawall |
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| creak | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creaking |
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| creaking | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creak |
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| daybreak | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| firebreak | (noun) a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire | Synonyms: fireguard |
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| freak | (noun) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | Synonyms: lusus naturae, monster, monstrosity |
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| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: addict, junkie, junky, nut |
| freakishness | (noun) marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal | Synonyms: abnormality |
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| gaolbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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| groundbreaker | (noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: innovator, pioneer, trailblazer |
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| groundbreaking | (noun) the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project | Synonyms: groundbreaking ceremony |
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| hairstreak | (noun) small butterflies having striped markings under the wings | Synonyms: hairstreak butterfly |
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| heartbreak | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, grief, heartache |
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| heartbreaker | (noun) a narrow defeat or a defeat at the last minute | - |
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| (noun) a charming person who is irresponsible in emotional relationships | - |
| housebreaker | (noun) a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house | Synonyms: cat burglar |
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| (noun) a wrecker of houses | Synonyms: housewrecker |
| housebreaking | (noun) trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent | Synonyms: break-in, breaking and entering |
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| icebreaker | (noun) a beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere | - |
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| (noun) a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation | Synonyms: iceboat |
| jailbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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| (noun) the removal of security locks from an electronic device | - |
| jawbreaker | (noun) a word that is hard to pronounce | - |
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| (noun) a large round hard candy | - |
| lawbreaker | (noun) someone who violates the law | Synonyms: law offender, violator |
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| middlebreaker | (noun) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow | Synonyms: lister, lister plough, lister plow, middle buster |
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| newsbreak | (noun) a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story | Synonyms: flash, news bulletin, newsflash |
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| outbreak | (noun) a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition) | Synonyms: eruption, irruption |
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| prisonbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking |
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| safebreaker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safecracker |
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| streak | (noun) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background | Synonyms: bar, stripe |
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| (noun) a distinctive characteristic | - |
| (noun) a sudden flash (as of lightning) | - |
| (noun) an unbroken series of events | Synonyms: run |
| streaker | (noun) someone who takes off all their clothes and runs naked through a public place | - |
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| strikebreaker | (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: blackleg, rat, scab |
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| strikebreaking | (noun) confrontational activities intended to break up a strike by workers | - |
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| tiebreaker | (noun) overtime play in order to break a tie; e.g. tennis and soccer | - |
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| unbreakableness | (noun) a consistency of something that does not break under pressure | - |
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| windbreak | (noun) hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion | Synonyms: shelterbelt |
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| windbreaker | (noun) a kind of heavy jacket | Synonyms: anorak, parka, windcheater |
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