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break::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | break of serve |
| Type of | score |
he was up two breaks in the second set.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fracture |
| Type of | harm, injury, trauma, hurt |
| Has types | compound fracture, impacted fracture, simple fracture, stress fracture, hairline fracture, fatigue fracture, displaced fracture, depressed fracture, compression fracture, complete fracture, comminuted fracture, closed fracture, capillary fracture, open fracture, incomplete fracture |
the break seems to have been caused by a fall.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | get around, get out |
| Has types | leak, leak out |
| Verb group | give away, disclose, discover, let out, let on, divulge, reveal, bring out, expose, unwrap, uncover |
break::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | go against, violate |
| Has types | fly in the teeth of, fly in the face of |
break::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | disruption, gap, interruption |
| Type of | delay, holdup |
| Has types | breaking off, barracking, cut-in, abruption, heckling, insert, interjection, interpellation, interpolation, interposition |
it was presented without commercial breaks.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
| Type of | flight, escape |
the breakout was carefully planned.
break::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | burst, erupt |
| Type of | express feelings, express emotion |
break into tears.
break::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | open frame |
| Type of | score |
the break in the eighth frame cost him the match.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bust, fall apart, wear, wear out |
| Type of | crumble, dilapidate, decay |
| Has types | frazzle, fray |
| Verb group | bust |
| Derivation | breakable |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bust |
| Type of | ruin, destroy |
| Has types | break down |
| Verb group | wear out, wear, fall apart, bust |
| Derivation | breakable, breakage |
break::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | breach, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate |
| Type of | disrespect |
| Has types | trespass, sin, contravene, transgress, conflict, drop the ball, run afoul, intrude, infringe, goof, blunder, boob |
break a law.
break a promise.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | break-dance, break dance |
| Type of | trip the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, dance |
Kids were break-dancing at the street corner.
break::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | come apart, fall apart, separate, split up |
| Type of | change integrity |
| Has types | smash, split, snap, run, puncture, ladder, fragmentize, fragmentise, fragment, break open, break up, burst, bust, crack, crush |
| Derivation | breakable |
break::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| Type of | tell |
| Has types | betray, tattle, talk, confide, spill the beans, come out of the closet, sing, come out, reveal, peach, blow, out, blackwash, muckrake, let the cat out of the bag, blab out, blab, bewray, leak, babble, babble out, spring |
| Verb group | get out, get around |
break::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | break up, part, separate, split, split up |
| Has types | give the axe, break apart, break away, break with, split up, splinter, divorce, disunite, disunify, dissociate, disjoint, disassociate, secede, give the gate, give the bounce |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | breakage, breaking |
| Type of | change of integrity |
| Has types | splintering, cracking, crack, fracture, rupture, chipping, chip, shattering, smashing |
the breakage was unavoidable.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | develop, recrudesce |
| Type of | go on, fall out, take place, come about, pass off, pass, occur, happen, hap |
| Verb group | develop |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | recess, respite, time out |
| Type of | pause |
| Has types | spring break |
we took a 10-minute break.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad |
| Type of | change |
| Has types | burn out, malfunction, misfire, misfunction, go down, blow, blow out, crash |
| Verb group | conk, drop dead, choke, exit, decease, expire, croak, kick the bucket, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, go, snuff it, pass, pass away, perish, die, give-up the ghost, pop off |
| Derivation | breakable |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bankrupt, ruin, smash |
| Type of | impoverish |
My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!.
break::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift |
| Type of | crevice, scissure, cleft, crack, fissure |
| Has types | strike-slip fault, inclined fault |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | break in |
| Type of | reclaim, domesticize, domesticate, domesticise, tame |
The horse was tough to break.
break::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | intermission, interruption, pause, suspension |
| Type of | time interval, interval |
| Has types | rest period, dead air, delay, caesura, blackout, wait, time lag, letup, time-out, halftime, lull, hold, rest, respite, relief, postponement, lapse |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | break away, break out |
| Type of | break loose, escape, get away |
Nobody can break out--this prison is high security.
break::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | breach, falling out, rift, rupture, severance |
| Type of | separation, detachment, breakup |
| Has types | schism |
they hoped to avoid a break in relations.
break::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | interruption |
| Type of | occurrence, happening, natural event, occurrent |
| Has types | occultation, disruption, hiatus, dislocation, suspension, eclipse, reprieve, abatement, respite, punctuation |
there was a break in the action when a player was hurt.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | good luck, happy chance |
| Type of | accident, stroke, fortuity, chance event |
he finally got his big break.
break::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | modification, alteration, change |
then there was a break in her voice.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | change |
| Verb group | break in |
If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress.
| Type | Words |
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break::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | emerge, come forth |
break::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | appear |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | fall out, happen, pass off, occur, come about, pass, take place, go on, hap |
Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months.
break::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | take flight, flee, fly |
| Verb group | break away, break out |
break::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | shoot |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | damage |
| Verb group | fail, give way, give out, die, go, go bad, conk out, break down |
| Derivation | breakage |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | disperse, dissipate, spread out, scatter |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | breakup, separation, detachment |
| Has types | snap |
the break in the dam threatened the valley.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | diphthongise, diphthongize |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | weaken |
Examples of break
break
She can get it done on the glass and has enough handles to get out on the break.
From the stltoday.com
If a person ignores stress fractures, the bone can develop a full-fledged break.
From the stltoday.com
The Mets are 5-for-36 with runners in scoring position since the All-Star break.
From the newsday.com
Trailing 56-43 at the break, the Cavaliers got a boost from Harris in the third.
From the sacbee.com
It came during college spring break, the craziest time for Daytona Beach hotels.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Although he finished with 17 home runs, he batted .192 after the all-star break.
From the denverpost.com
Connelly is skilled with the ball in his hands and can break a press by himself.
From the stltoday.com
However, the chemicals didn't appear to break the oil apart as fast as promised.
From the online.wsj.com
To break through, Apple will have to strike landmark deals with media companies.
From the online.wsj.com
- Interrupt: terminate; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty"
- Interruption: some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity; "the telephone is an annoying interruption"; "there was a break in the action when a player was hurt"
- Become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
- An unexpected piece of good luck; "he finally got his big break"
- Fault: (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust"
- Render inoperable or ineffective; "You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!"
- Break may refer to:
- Break is the third episode of the third series of British television sitcom, Bottom. It was first broadcast on January 20th, 1995.
- Break is the fourth studio album by the American progressive rock band Enchant. It was released 1998.
