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breaking - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | breaking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bursting |
| Synonyms: | crumbling, collapsing, cracking, fracturing, shattering, smashing, splintering, splitting, tearing |
| Antonyms: | enduring, strong |
| Main Entry: | breaking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | division |
| Synonyms: | detachment, parting, partition, separation, detaching, dividing |
| Antonyms: | union |
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy; make whole into pieces |
| Synonyms: | annihilate, batter, burst, bust, crack, crash, crush, damage, demolish, disintegrate, divide, eradicate, fracture, fragment, part, rend, separate, sever, shatter, shiver, smash, snap, splinter, split, tear, total, trash*, bust up, finish off, make hash of, make mincemeat of, pull to pieces, torpedo |
| Notes: | to brake is to slow or stop while break is to cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently, smash or crack |
| Antonyms: | attach, fasten, fix, join, mend, put together, secure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | violate law |
| Synonyms: | breach, contravene, disobey, disregard, infringe, offend, transgress, violate, infract, renege on |
| Antonyms: | agree, obey |
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | weaken, cause instability |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, bust, confound, confute, controvert, cow, cripple, degrade, demerit, demoralize, demote, disprove, downgrade, enervate, enfeeble, humiliate, impair, impoverish, incapacitate, rebut, reduce, refute, ruin, subdue, tame, undermine, declass, disconfirm, dispirit, pauperize |
| Antonyms: | stabilize, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stop an action |
| Synonyms: | abandon, cut, discontinue, interrupt, pause, rest, suspend, give up |
| Antonyms: | allow, cause |
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tell news |
| Synonyms: | announce, come out, communicate, convey, disclose, divulge, impart, inform, proclaim, reveal, tell, transmit, let out, make public, pass on |
| Antonyms: | hide, secret, keep quiet |
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | better a performance |
| Synonyms: | beat, cap, exceed, excel, outdo, outstrip, surpass, top, go beyond |
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | emerge, happen |
| Synonyms: | appear, befall, betide, chance, come off, develop, erupt, go, occur, transpire, burst out, come forth, come to pass |
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | run away |
| Synonyms: | abscond, clear out*, dash, decamp, escape, flee, fly, get out, bust out, cut and run, get away |
| Antonyms: | stay, wait |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cushion something's effect |
| Synonyms: | diminish, lessen, lighten, moderate, reduce, soften, weaken |
| Main Entry: | breakup |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of relationship |
| Synonyms: | breakdown, breaking, disintegration, dissolution, divorce, ending, parting, rift, separation, split, termination, crackup*, dispersal, splitsville, splitting, wind-up |
| Antonyms: | reconciliation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | infraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | violation |
| Synonyms: | breach, breaking, crime, error, faux pas, infringement, lapse, offense, sin, slip*, transgression, trespass, contravention |
| Antonyms: | obedience |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | outbreak |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden happening |
| Synonyms: | beginning, blowup, brawl, break, breaking, burst, bursting, commencement, commotion, convulsion, crack, crash, dawn, detonation, discharge, disorder, disruption, effervescence, epidemic, eruption, explosion, fit, flare-up, flash, fury, gush, gushing, insurrection, irruption, mutiny, onset, outburst, outpouring, paroxysm, plague, rebellion, revolution, roar, sally, sortie, spasm, spurt, storm, surge, thunder, tumult, uprising, volley, ebullition, rending, sundering |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, finale |
| Main Entry: | parting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | goodbye, separation |
| Synonyms: | adieu, break, breaking, breakup, crossroads*, departure, detachment, divergence, division, farewell, partition, rift, rupture, split, bisection, going, leave-taking, on the rocks, severance, split-up, valediction |
| Antonyms: | greeting, hello, introduction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ramification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consequence, development |
| Synonyms: | branch, breaking, complication, consequence, division, excrescence, extension, offshoot, outgrowth, partition, radiation, result, sequel, subdivision, upshot, bifurcation, branching, divarication, forking, subdividing |
| Antonyms: | cause |
| Main Entry: | crumbling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rotting |
| Synonyms: | breaking, decaying, breaking up, collapsing, disintegrating |
| Main Entry: | wrecking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | destroying |
| Synonyms: | bashing, breaking, destructive, battering, ruining, shattering, smashing, splitting, tearing down |
| Main Entry: | division |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | separation, disconnection |
| Synonyms: | analysis, apportionment, autopsy, breaking, contrasting, demarcation, detachment, diagnosis, dissolution, distinguishing, distribution, divorce, parting, partition, reduction, rupture, selection, subdivision, bisection, breaking down, breaking up, carving, cutting up, departmentalizing, detaching, disjuncture, dismemberment, disparting, disseverance, disunion, disuniting, dividing, parceling, rending, segmentation, separating, severance, splitting up, vivisection |
| Antonyms: | accord, agreement, connection, unification, unison, unity |
| Main Entry: | smash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collision; defeat |
| Synonyms: | accident, bang, bash, blast, blow, boom, breakdown, breaking, breakup, burst, clap, collapse, crack, crash, debacle, destruction, disaster, downfall, failure, ruin, slam, sock, wallop, welt, whack, wham, wreck, crack-up, pile-up, shattering, smash-up |
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