Breaking

//ˈbɹeɪkɪŋ//

Synonyms for "breaking" (49 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (10)

accommodation adjustment apprenticeship bad faith basic training breach breach of promise breakage

Noun(2 words)

Strong matches (15)

breakdancing breeding conditioning cultivation development discipline drill exercise fracture grooming habituation hardening humiliation improvement

Noun(1 words)

breakdancing

Related words (24)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

8 relation types

More general

1 entries

change of integrity

Synonyms

1 entries

breakage

derived

41 entries

backbreaking barns-breaking breaking and entering breaking change breaking news breaking of the waters breakingly car breaking codebreaking gamebreaking groundbreaking heartbreaking homebreaking horsebreaking housebreaking icebreaking

Showing 16 of 41 words.

form of

1 entries

break

has context

2 entries

linguistics music

has property

1 entries

bad

is a

6 entries

becoming discontinuing emerging incurring damage invalidating separating

related to

5 entries

break breakdancing diphthong ornamentation vowel

Translations

1 translations across 1 languages.

German

1 entries

Brechung verb (in linguistics: vowel breaking)

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

You cannot make omelets without breaking eggs.

Source: tatoeba (20048)

Anyone breaking the rules will be asked to leave on the spot.

Source: tatoeba (20219)

My patience has come to the breaking point.

Source: tatoeba (21095)

I must apologize to you for breaking the vase.

Source: tatoeba (23697)

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