Breaking

What do we mean by breaking?

To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.

To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.

To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.

To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.

To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.

To ruin financially.

To violate, to not adhere to.

(of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, in terms of temperature.

(of a spell of settled weather) To end.

(of a storm) To begin; to end.

(of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.

To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.

To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.

To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.

To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.

(of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.

To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.

To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.

To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.

To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.

(of a sound) To become audible suddenly.

To change a steady state abruptly.

To suddenly become.

Of a male voice, to become deeper at puberty.

Of a voice, to alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down; to crack.

To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a new record.

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(most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.

To end (a connection), to disconnect.

(of an emulsion) To demulsify.

To counter-attack

To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.

To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.

To fail in business; to become bankrupt.

To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.

To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.

To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.

To fall out; to terminate friendship.

To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.

To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.

Words that are spelled similarly to breaking:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word breaking:
barriers, silence, symmetry, barrier, bad, streak, dawn, record, waves, leg, news, neck, bonds, nose, benjamin, promise, coverage, entering, rules, down.

Words that rhyme with breaking:
making, undertaking, groundbreaking, painstaking, breathtaking, taking, decision making, baking, heartbreaking, shaking, raking, flaking, policymaking, handshaking, staking, waking, quaking, filmmaking, caking, mistaking, muckraking, rulemaking, matchmaking, faking, moneymaking, braking, forsaking, overtaking, earthshaking, printmaking, snaking, slaking, lawmaking, retaking, bookmaking, steelmaking, remaking, peacemaking, homemaking, dangerous undertaking, papermaking, dealmaking, dressmaking, moviemaking, maikong, glassmaking, lace making, lawbreaking, print making, picture taking, basketmaking, away king, birthday king, break ing, che kung, day king, decisionmaking, grey king, holloway king, j king, jake hung, k king, lake king, lei kung, make king, obey king, pay king, play king, profittaking, railway king, ray king, re king, say king, snake hung, snake king, spake king, take king, way king, wei qing.

Adjectives that are often used to describe breaking:
heart, spontaneous, law, first, sudden, rule, ground, gradual, actual, final, general, complete, symmetry, record, sabbath, chiral, house, back, deliberate, machine, mere, accidental, strike, constant, subsequent, rapid, dynamical, violent, electroweak, late, dog, frequent, mechanical, initial, light, day, partial, continual, consequent, occasional, slow, residual, near, ice, fast, abrupt, surf, wave, immediate, simultaneous, explicit, continuous, constructive, soft, forcible, premature, eventual, worth, covenant, preliminary, intentional, cross, busy, easy, progressive, induced, nigh, ultimate, taboo, weak, safe, systematic, thorough, symbolic, tie.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective breaking:
point, work, down, labor, study, news, out, off, book, vote, toil, ceremony, job, research, behavior, task, labour, waves, story, strength, ceremonies, activities, run, process, business, studies, stories, flight, effort, events, developments, article, antioxidants, machine, rule, antioxidant, efforts, space, mechanism, event, strain, wave, performance, load, speed, struggle, flights, processes, works, device, essay, hours, sorrow, rules, sobs, tasks, jobs, weight, performances, season, trip, scene, techniques, operation, sight, decision, paper, machines, agents, operations, behaviour, capacity, sales, pace, reactions, cry, riots.

Consonant match to breaking:
broking, braking, bricking, brooking, break ing.

Words that sound like breaking:
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