DICTOMETER

BREAKING

(break, breaking, descanso, quebrar, romper, brekke, knuse, pause)

1. Synonyms:
   • Breakage
   • Break
   • Breaking
   Definitions:
   • the act of breaking something
   Examples:
   • The breakage was unavoidable
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Interrupt
   • Break
   Definitions:
   • terminate
   Examples:
   • She interrupted her pregnancy
   • Break a lucky streak
   • Break the cycle of poverty
   Antonyms:
   repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Break
   • Separate
   • Split up
   • Fall apart
   • Come apart
   Definitions:
   • become separated into pieces or fragments
   Examples:
   • The figurine broke
   • The freshly baked loaf fell apart
   Antonyms:
   observe, keep
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Break
   Definitions:
   • render inoperable or ineffective
   Examples:
   • You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!
   Antonyms:
   make
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Break
   • Bust
   Definitions:
   • ruin completely
   Examples:
   • He busted my radio!
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Break
   Definitions:
   • destroy the integrity of
   • usually by force
   • cause to separate into pieces or fragments
   Examples:
   • He broke the glass plate
   • She broke the match
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Transgress
   • Offend
   • Infract
   • Violate
   • Go against
   • Breach
   • Break
   Definitions:
   • act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
   Examples:
   • Offend all laws of humanity
   • Violate the basic laws or human civilization
   • Break a law
   • Break a promise
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Break
   • Break out
   • Break away
   Definitions:
   • move away or escape suddenly
   Examples:
   • The horses broke from the stable
   • Three inmates broke jail
   • Nobody can break out
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Break
   Definitions:
   • scatter or part
   Examples:
   • The clouds broke after the heavy downpour
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Break
   • Burst
   • Erupt
   Definitions:
   • force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
   Examples:
   • Break into tears
   • Erupt in anger
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Break
    • Break off
    • Discontinue
    • Stop
    Definitions:
    • prevent completion
    Examples:
    • Stop the project
    • Break off the negotiations
    
    
11. Synonyms:
    • Break in
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
    Examples:
    • Someone broke in while I was on vacation
    • They broke into my car and stole my radio!
    • Who broke into my account last night?
    
    
12. Synonyms:
    • Break in
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • make submissive, obedient, or useful
    Examples:
    • The horse was tough to break
    • I broke in the new intern
    
    
13. Synonyms:
    • Violate
    • Go against
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • fail to agree with
    • be in violation of
    • as of rules or patterns
    Examples:
    • This sentence violates the rules of syntax
    
    
14. Synonyms:
    • Better
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • surpass in excellence
    Examples:
    • She bettered her own record
    • Break a record
    
    
15. Synonyms:
    • Unwrap
    • Disclose
    • Let on
    • Bring out
    • Reveal
    • Discover
    • Expose
    • Divulge
    • Break
    • Give away
    • Let out
    Definitions:
    • make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
    Examples:
    • The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold
    • The actress won't reveal how old she is
    • Bring out the truth
    • He broke the news to her
    • Unwrap the evidence in the murder case
    
    
16. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • come into being
    Examples:
    • Light broke over the horizon
    • Voices broke in the air
    
    
17. Synonyms:
    • Fail
    • Go bad
    • Give way
    • Die
    • Give out
    • Conk out
    • Go
    • Break
    • Break down
    Definitions:
    • stop operating or functioning
    Examples:
    • The engine finally went
    • The car died on the road
    • The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town
    • The coffee maker broke
    • The engine failed on the way to town
    • Her eyesight went after the accident
    
    
18. Synonyms:
    • Break
    • Break away
    Definitions:
    • interrupt a continued activity
    Examples:
    • She had broken with the traditional patterns
    
    
19. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
    Examples:
    • The ranks broke
    
    
20. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
    Examples:
    • The surf broke
    
    
21. Synonyms:
    • Dampen
    • Damp
    • Soften
    • Weaken
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • lessen in force or effect
    Examples:
    • Soften a shock
    • Break a fall
    
    
22. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • be broken in
    Examples:
    • If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress
    
    
23. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • come to an end
    Examples:
    • The heat wave finally broke yesterday
    
    
24. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
    Examples:
    • The flat plain was broken by tall mesas
    
    
25. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • cause to give up a habit
    Examples:
    • She finally broke herself of smoking cigarettes
    
    
26. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • give up
    Examples:
    • Break cigarette smoking
    
    
27. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • come forth or begin from a state of latency
    Examples:
    • The first winter storm broke over New York
    
    
28. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • happen or take place
    Examples:
    • Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months
    
    
29. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • cause the failure or ruin of
    Examples:
    • His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage
    • This play will either make or break the playwright
    
    
30. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • invalidate by judicial action
    Examples:
    • The will was broken
    
    
31. Synonyms:
    • Separate
    • Part
    • Split up
    • Split
    • Break
    • Break up
    Definitions:
    • discontinue an association or relation
    • go different ways
    Examples:
    • The business partners broke over a tax question
    • The couple separated after 25 years of marriage
    • My friend and I split up
    
    
32. Synonyms:
    • Demote
    • Bump
    • Relegate
    • Break
    • Kick downstairs
    Definitions:
    • assign to a lower position
    • reduce in rank
    Examples:
    • She was demoted because she always speaks up
    • He was broken down to Sergeant
    
    
33. Synonyms:
    • Bankrupt
    • Ruin
    • Break
    • Smash
    Definitions:
    • reduce to bankruptcy
    Examples:
    • My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!
    • The slump in the financial markets smashed him
    
    
34. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • change directions suddenly
    
    
35. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • emerge from the surface of a body of water
    Examples:
    • The whales broke
    
    
36. Synonyms:
    • Collapse
    • Fall in
    • Cave in
    • Give
    • Give way
    • Break
    • Founder
    Definitions:
    • break down, literally or metaphorically
    Examples:
    • The wall collapsed
    • The business collapsed
    • The dam broke
    • The roof collapsed
    • The wall gave in
    • The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice
    
    
37. Synonyms:
    • Break dance
    • Break-dance
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • do a break dance
    Examples:
    • Kids were break-dancing at the street corner
    
    
38. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • exchange for smaller units of money
    Examples:
    • I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy
    
    
39. Synonyms:
    • Break
    • Break up
    Definitions:
    • destroy the completeness of a set of related items
    Examples:
    • The book dealer would not break the set
    
    
40. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • make the opening shot that scatters the balls
    
    
41. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • separate from a clinch, in boxing
    Examples:
    • The referee broke the boxers
    
    
42. Synonyms:
    • Break
    • Wear
    • Wear out
    • Bust
    • Fall apart
    Definitions:
    • go to pieces
    Examples:
    • The lawn mower finally broke
    • The gears wore out
    • The old chair finally fell apart completely
    
    
43. Synonyms:
    • Break
    • Break off
    • Snap off
    Definitions:
    • break a piece from a whole
    Examples:
    • Break a branch from a tree
    
    
44. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • become punctured or penetrated
    Examples:
    • The skin broke
    
    
45. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • pierce or penetrate
    Examples:
    • The blade broke her skin
    
    
46. Synonyms:
    • Break
    • Get out
    • Get around
    Definitions:
    • be released or become known
    • of news
    Examples:
    • News of her death broke in the morning
    
    
47. Synonyms:
    • Pause
    • Intermit
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • cease an action temporarily
    Examples:
    • We pause for station identification
    • Let's break for lunch
    
    
48. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • interrupt the flow of current in
    Examples:
    • Break a circuit
    
    
49. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • undergo breaking
    Examples:
    • The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages
    
    
50. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • find a flaw in
    Examples:
    • Break an alibi
    • Break down a proof
    
    
51. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • find the solution or key to
    Examples:
    • Break the code
    
    
52. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
    Examples:
    • Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children
    
    
53. Synonyms:
    • Break
    • Recrudesce
    • Develop
    Definitions:
    • happen
    Examples:
    • Report the news as it develops
    • These political movements recrudesce from time to time
    
    
54. Synonyms:
    • Crack
    • Check
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • become fractured
    • break or crack on the surface only
    Examples:
    • The glass cracked when it was heated
    
    
55. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • crack
    • of the male voice in puberty
    Examples:
    • His voice is breaking
    
    
56. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • fall sharply
    Examples:
    • Stock prices broke
    
    
57. Synonyms:
    • Fracture
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • fracture a bone of
    Examples:
    • I broke my foot while playing hockey
    
    
58. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • diminish or discontinue abruptly
    Examples:
    • The patient's fever broke last night
    
    
59. Synonyms:
    • Break
    Definitions:
    • weaken or destroy in spirit or body
    Examples:
    • His resistance was broken
    • A man broken by the terrible experience of near-death