Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "breaking" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

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 inbreaking jawbreaking late-breaking lawbreaking microbreaking non-breaking nonbreaking oathbreaking outbreaking pairbreaking pathbreaking peacebreaking prison breaking record-breaking rulebreaking safebreaking sequence breaking shipbreaking shopbreaking strike breaking strikebreaking tiebreaking unbreaking windbreaking worldbreaking

Inflected/Variant Forms

break

Context

linguistics music

Has Property

bad

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

change of integrity

Type Of (IsA)

becoming discontinuing emerging incurring damage invalidating separating

Related Terms

break breakdancing diphthong ornamentation vowel

Synonym Network

breakage

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.