breach | (noun) a failure to perform some promised act or obligation | - |
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(noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: break, falling out, rift, rupture, severance |
(noun) an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification) | - |
(verb) make an opening or gap in | Synonyms: gap |
(verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: break, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate |
bread | (noun) food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked | Synonyms: breadstuff, staff of life |
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(noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
(verb) cover with bread crumbs | - |
breadbasket | (noun) a basket for serving bread | - |
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(noun) an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion | Synonyms: stomach, tum, tummy |
(noun) a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain | - |
breadboard | (noun) a wooden or plastic board on which dough is kneaded or bread is sliced | Synonyms: bread board |
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breadbox | (noun) a container used to keep bread or cake in | Synonyms: bread-bin |
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breadcrumb | (noun) crumb of bread; used especially for coating or thickening | - |
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breadfruit | (noun) a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts | - |
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(noun) native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread | Synonyms: Artocarpus altilis, Artocarpus communis, breadfruit tree |
breadline | (noun) a queue of people waiting for free food | Synonyms: bread line |
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breadroot | (noun) densely hairy perennial of central North America having edible tuberous roots | Synonyms: Indian breadroot, pomme blanche, pomme de prairie, Psoralea esculenta |
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breadstick | (noun) a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup | Synonyms: bread-stick |
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breadstuff | (noun) food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked | Synonyms: bread, staff of life |
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(noun) flour or meal or grain used in baking bread | - |
breadth | (noun) the extent of something from side to side | Synonyms: width |
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(noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: comprehensiveness, largeness |
breadthways | (adverb) in the direction of the breadth | Synonyms: breadthwise, broadwise |
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breadthwise | (adverb) in the direction of the breadth | Synonyms: breadthways, broadwise |
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breadwinner | (noun) one whose earnings are the primary source of support for their dependents | - |
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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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bream | (noun) any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis | Synonyms: freshwater bream |
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(noun) any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae | Synonyms: sea bream |
(noun) flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae | Synonyms: sea bream |
(noun) flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe | Synonyms: freshwater bream |
(verb) clean (a ship's bottom) with heat | - |
breast | (noun) the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest | - |
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(noun) either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman | Synonyms: boob, bosom, knocker, tit, titty |
(noun) the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen | Synonyms: chest |
(noun) meat carved from the breast of a fowl | Synonyms: white meat |
(verb) confront bodily | Synonyms: front |
(verb) reach the summit (of a mountain) | Synonyms: summit |
(verb) meet at breast level | - |
breastbone | (noun) the flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs | Synonyms: sternum |
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breasted | (adjective) having a breast or breasts; or breasts as specified; used chiefly in compounds | - |
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breastfeed | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
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breastless | (adjective) without a breast | - |
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breastpin | (noun) a decorative pin worn by women | Synonyms: broach, brooch |
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breastplate | (noun) armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass | Synonyms: aegis, egis |
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breaststroke | (noun) a swimming stroke; the arms are extended together in front of the head and swept back on either side accompanied by a frog kick | - |
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(verb) swim with the face down and extend the arms forward and outward while kicking with the leg | - |
breaststroker | (noun) someone who swims the breaststroke | - |
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breastwork | (noun) fortification consisting of a low wall | Synonyms: parapet |
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breath | (noun) the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing | - |
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(noun) an indirect suggestion | Synonyms: hint, intimation |
(noun) a slight movement of the air | - |
(noun) the air that is inhaled and exhaled in respiration | - |
(noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breather, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
breathalyse | (verb) test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer | Synonyms: breathalyze |
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breathalyser | (noun) a device that measures chemicals (especially the alcohol content) in a person's expired breath | Synonyms: breathalyzer |
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breathalyze | (verb) test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer | Synonyms: breathalyse |
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breathalyzer | (noun) a device that measures chemicals (especially the alcohol content) in a person's expired breath | Synonyms: breathalyser |
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breathe | (verb) draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs | Synonyms: respire, suspire, take a breath |
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(verb) expel (gases or odors) | Synonyms: emit, pass off |
(verb) reach full flavor by absorbing air and being let to stand after having been uncorked | - |
(verb) take a short break from one's activities in order to relax | Synonyms: catch one's breath, rest, take a breather |
(verb) utter or tell | - |
(verb) manifest or evince | - |
(verb) impart as if by breathing | - |
(verb) be alive | - |
(verb) allow the passage of air through | - |
breathed | (adjective) uttered without voice | Synonyms: voiceless |
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breather | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: schnorchel, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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(noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breath, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
breathing | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: eupneic, eupnoeic |
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(noun) the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation | Synonyms: external respiration, respiration, ventilation |
breathless | (adjective) not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty | Synonyms: dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic |
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(adjective) appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse | Synonyms: inanimate, pulseless |
(adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathtaking |
breathlessly | (adverb) in a breathless manner | - |
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breathlessness | (noun) a dyspneic condition | Synonyms: shortness of breath, SOB |
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breathtaking | (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathless |
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breccia | (noun) a rudaceous rock consisting of sharp fragments embedded in clay or sand | - |
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brecciate | (verb) break into breccia | - |
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(verb) form into breccia | - |
breech | (noun) opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded | Synonyms: rear of barrel, rear of tube |
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breechblock | (noun) a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert a cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing | Synonyms: breech closer |
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breechcloth | (noun) a garment that provides covering for the loins | Synonyms: breechclout, loincloth |
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breechclout | (noun) a garment that provides covering for the loins | Synonyms: breechcloth, loincloth |
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breeched | (adjective) dressed in trousers | Synonyms: pantalooned, trousered |
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breeches | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee | Synonyms: knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers, knickers |
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breechloader | (noun) a gun that is loaded at the breech | - |
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breed | (noun) a special type | - |
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(noun) a special variety of domesticated animals within a species | Synonyms: stock, strain |
(verb) have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms) | Synonyms: multiply |
(verb) copulate with a female, used especially of horses | Synonyms: cover |
(verb) cause to procreate (animals) | - |
(verb) call forth | Synonyms: engender, spawn |
breeder | (noun) a person who breeds animals | Synonyms: stock breeder |
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breeding | (adjective) producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring | - |
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(noun) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring | Synonyms: facts of life, procreation, reproduction |
(noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
(noun) the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization | - |
(noun) the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) | Synonyms: education, training |
(noun) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression | Synonyms: genteelness, gentility |
breeze | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover |
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(noun) a slight wind (usually refreshing) | Synonyms: air, gentle wind, zephyr |
(verb) to proceed quickly and easily | - |
(verb) blow gently and lightly | - |
breezily | (adverb) in a breezy manner | - |
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breeziness | (noun) a breezy liveliness | Synonyms: jauntiness |
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(noun) a mildly windy state of the air | Synonyms: windiness |
breezy | (adjective) fresh and animated | - |
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(adjective) abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes | Synonyms: blowy, windy |
bregma | (noun) the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and coronal sutures at the top of the cranium | - |
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bregmatic | (adjective) of or relating to the bregma of the skull | - |
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brent | (noun) small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward | Synonyms: brant, brant goose, brent goose |
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brethren | (noun) (plural) the lay members of a male religious order | - |
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breve | (noun) a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound | - |
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brevet | (noun) a document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (but without higher pay) | - |
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(verb) promote somebody by brevet, in the military | - |
breviary | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a book of prayers to be recited daily by certain priests and members of religious orders | - |
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brevity | (noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting | Synonyms: briefness, transience |
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(noun) the use of brief expressions | - |
brew | (noun) drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling | Synonyms: brewage |
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(verb) sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor | - |
(verb) prepare by brewing | - |
brewage | (noun) drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling | Synonyms: brew |
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brewer | (noun) the owner or manager of a brewery | - |
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(noun) someone who brews beer or ale from malt and hops and water | Synonyms: beer maker |
brewery | (noun) a plant where beer is brewed by fermentation | - |
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brewing | (noun) the production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast | - |
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brewpub | (noun) a combination brewery and restaurant; beer is brewed for consumption on the premises and served along with food | - |
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