| backbreaking | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| 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 |
| (verb) fracture a bone of | Synonyms: fracture |
| (verb) weaken or destroy in spirit or body | - |
| (verb) diminish or discontinue abruptly | - |
| (verb) become separated into pieces or fragments | Synonyms: come apart, fall apart, separate, split up |
| (verb) happen | Synonyms: develop, recrudesce |
| (verb) prevent completion | Synonyms: break off, discontinue, stop |
| (verb) terminate or end | Synonyms: interrupt |
| (verb) come into being | - |
| (verb) stop operating or functioning | Synonyms: break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad |
| (verb) render inoperable or ineffective | - |
| (verb) crack; of the male voice in puberty | - |
| (verb) fall sharply | - |
| (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: damp, dampen, soften, weaken |
| (verb) destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments | - |
| (verb) make submissive, obedient, or useful | Synonyms: break in |
| (verb) be broken in | - |
| (verb) change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another | - |
| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: check, crack |
| (verb) find the solution or key to | - |
| (verb) find a flaw in | - |
| (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| (verb) cease an action temporarily | Synonyms: intermit, pause |
| (verb) be released or become known; of news | Synonyms: get around, get out |
| (verb) undergo breaking | - |
| (verb) interrupt the flow of current in | - |
| (verb) surpass in excellence | Synonyms: better |
| (verb) go to pieces | Synonyms: bust, fall apart, wear, wear out |
| (verb) ruin completely | Synonyms: bust |
| (verb) separate from a clinch, in boxing | - |
| (verb) break a piece from a whole | Synonyms: break off, snap off |
| (verb) pierce or penetrate | - |
| (verb) destroy the completeness of a set of related items | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) exchange for smaller units of money | - |
| (verb) become punctured or penetrated | - |
| (verb) make the opening shot that scatters the balls | - |
| (verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | Synonyms: burst, erupt |
| (verb) do a break dance | Synonyms: break-dance, break dance |
| (verb) curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves | - |
| (verb) move away or escape suddenly | Synonyms: break away, break out |
| (verb) scatter or part | - |
| (verb) emerge from the surface of a body of water | - |
| (verb) make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing | - |
| (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give, give way |
| (verb) change directions suddenly | - |
| (verb) reduce to bankruptcy | Synonyms: bankrupt, ruin, smash |
| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate |
| (verb) interrupt a continued activity | Synonyms: break away |
| (verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate |
| (verb) cause the failure or ruin of | - |
| (verb) invalidate by judicial action | - |
| (verb) enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act | Synonyms: break in |
| (verb) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways | Synonyms: break up, part, separate, split, split up |
| (verb) happen or take place | - |
| (verb) fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns | Synonyms: go against, violate |
| (verb) give up | - |
| (verb) cause to give up a habit | - |
| (verb) vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity | - |
| (verb) come forth or begin from a state of latency | - |
| (verb) come to an end | - |
| breakability | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: fragility, frangibility, frangibleness |
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| breakable | (adjective) capable of being broken or damaged | - |
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| (noun) an article that is fragile and easily broken | - |
| 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 | (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: fissiparous, separatist |
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| (noun) the act of breaking away or withdrawing from | Synonyms: breaking away |
| 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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| (verb) eat an early morning meal | - |
| (verb) provide breakfast for | - |
| breaking | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: break, breakage |
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| breakneck | (adjective) moving at very high speed | - |
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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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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine |
| creakily | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakingly, screakily |
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| creaking | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creak |
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| creakingly | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakily, screakily |
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| creaky | (adjective) having a rasping or grating sound | Synonyms: screaky |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to arthritis | Synonyms: arthritic, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy |
| (adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
| 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 |
| (verb) lose one's nerve | Synonyms: freak out, gross out |
| freakish | (adjective) characteristic of a freak | - |
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| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, flaky, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| (adjective) changeable | Synonyms: capricious |
| freakishly | (adverb) unpredictably | Synonyms: capriciously |
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| freakishness | (noun) marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal | Synonyms: abnormality |
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| freaky | (adjective) strange and somewhat frightening | - |
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| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, flaky, freakish, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| 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 | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: innovational, innovative |
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| (noun) the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project | Synonyms: groundbreaking ceremony |
| 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 | - |
| heartbreaking | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartrending |
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| housebreak | (verb) train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house | Synonyms: house-train |
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| 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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| screak | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screech, skreak, skreigh, squawk |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine |
| screakily | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakily, creakingly |
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| screaky | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screechy, squeaking, squeaky, squealing |
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| (adjective) having a rasping or grating sound | Synonyms: creaky |
| skreak | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreigh, squawk |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screak, screech, squeak, whine |
| 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 |
| (verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: blotch, mottle |
| (verb) move quickly in a straight line | - |
| (verb) run naked in a public place | - |
| streaked | (adjective) marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations | Synonyms: streaky |
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| streaker | (noun) someone who takes off all their clothes and runs naked through a public place | - |
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| streaky | (adjective) marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations | Synonyms: streaked |
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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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| unbreakable | (adjective) impossible to break especially under ordinary usage | - |
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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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| wreak | (verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence | Synonyms: bring, make for, play, work |
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