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 | - |
creak | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creaking |
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(verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine |
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 |
gaolbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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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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housebreak | (verb) train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house | Synonyms: house-train |
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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 | - |
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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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 |
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 | - |
windbreak | (noun) hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion | Synonyms: shelterbelt |
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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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