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breakingverbpresent participle of break to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forciblyhated telling her that I had broken her favorite glass vase breaking up, busting, disintegrating, dismembering, disrupting, fracturing, fragmenting, riving atomizing, crushing, grinding, powdering, pulverizing, reducingblasting, blowing up, bursting, detonating, explodingcracking, popping, shattering, shivering, smashingchipping, slivering, splintering, splittingimplodingdestroying, ruining, wrecking doctoring, fixing, healing, mending, patching, rebuilding, reconditioning, reconstructing, renovating, repairing to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate endthe final vote broke the deadlock breaking off, breaking up, canning(slang), ceasing, cutting off, cutting out, desisting (from), discontinuing, dropping, ending, giving over, halting, knocking off, laying off, leaving off, packing (up or in), quitting, shutting off, stopping completing, concluding, finishingclosing (down)deactivatingblockading, blocking, damming, delaying, detaining, hindering, holding, holding back, impeding, kiboshing, obstructing, stemmingcalling, suspendingarresting, braking, checking, clamping down, reining (in), squashing, squelching, stamping, stanching(or staunching), stunting, suppressing, turning backpausing, staying, suspendingabolishing, aborting, annulling, demolishing, destroying, dissolving, killing, ruining, scuttling, snuffing having done with, putting the kibosh on carrying on, continuing, following through (with), keeping up, running onadvancing, proceeding, progressingactuating, driving, impelling, propelling, stirring to bring to a lower grade or rankthe captain was broken to lieutenant commander for disobeying a direct order from his group commander busting, degrading, demoting, disrating, downgrading, reducing canning, cashiering, dismissing, downsizing, firing, laying off, sackingabasing, debasing, demeaning, humbling, humiliating, lowering advancing, elevating, promoting, raising hiring to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary languageAlan Turing and the Bletchley Park mathematicians broke the Enigma code being used by the Nazis cracking, deciphering, decoding, decrypting descrambling, unscramblingrendering, translatingdoping (out), figuring out, puzzling (out), solving, unraveling, unriddling, working, working out ciphering, coding, enciphering, encoding, encrypting garbling, jumbling (up), mixing (up) to come to a temporary halt in one's activityshe broke from her ruminations to find that it was already dinnertime pausing hesitatingbreaking in, interruptingceasing, discontinuing, ending, finishing, stopping, terminatingknocking off, laying off, quittinglapsing, letting up catching one's breath, holding one's horses continuing, persistingadvancing, progressingextending, prolonging, stretching to cut into and turn over the sod of (a piece of land) using a bladed implementfarmers once broke fields with horse-drawn plows to fail to keephad to confess that he had broken his promise not to share their conversation with anyone breaching, contravening, fracturing, infringing (on or upon), offending, traducing, transgressing, violating disobeying, rebellingblowing off, brushing (off), disregarding, flouting, ignoring, neglecting, overlooking, overpassing, passing over, slighting, tuning out, winking (at)dismissing, pooh-poohing(also poohing), scorning, shrugging offdefying, resisting, withstanding complying (with), conforming (to), following, minding, obeying, observing deferring (to), serving, submitting (to), surrendering (to), yielding (to)attending, hearing, heeding, listening (to), marking, noticing, noting, regarding, watching to find an answer for through reasoningProfessor Bates broke the problem when she realized that it was possible to synthesize the necessary compounds answering, cracking, doping (out), figuring out, puzzling (out), resolving, riddling (out), solving, unraveling, unriddling, working, working out concluding, deciding, deducing, gathering, inferring, judging, reasoningclearing (up), ironing out, straightening (out), unscrambling, untangling, untying(or untieing)assuming, conjecturing, divining, guessing, presuming, speculatingdeciphering, decoding to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection ofI broke a tooth on the hard candy blemishing, bloodying, compromising, crabbing, crippling, crossing (up), damaging, defacing, disfiguring, endamaging, flawing, harming, hurting, impairing, injuring, marring, spoiling, vitiating deteriorating, enervating, enfeebling, undermining, weakeningeroding, scouring, washing out, wearing (away)blighting, tarnishingdenting, dinging, dintingbotching, gumming (up), queeringlacerating, woundingdisabling, hamstringing, laming, maiming, mangling, mutilating, tormenting, torturingannihilating, banging up, bashing, battering, clobbering, crushing, dashing, decimating, demolishing, desolating, destroying, devastating, doing in, pulverizing, razing, ruining, scourging, shattering, smashing, tearing down, totaling(or totalling), wasting, wiping out, wrecking doctoring, fixing, mending, patching, rebuilding, reconditioning, reconstructing, renovating, repairing, revamping curing, healing, helping, rectifying, rehabilitating, remedyingediting, remodeling, revisingameliorating, bettering, enhancing, enriching, improving, meliorating, perfecting, refining to stop functioningafter working for 30 years, the pump simply broke one day breaking down, conking (out), crashing, cutting out, dying, failing, giving out, stalling fizzling, sputtering, wheezingacting up, malfunctioningjamming starting (up) to hasten away from something dangerous or frighteningthe herd of gazelles broke when they saw the lions racing toward them from the ridge above bolting, bugging out, fleeing, flying, hightailing (it), retreating, running, running away, running off, skedaddling absconding, clearing out, decamping, eloping, escaping, getting (away), getting out, lamming, lighting out, making off, mizzling(chiefly British), scarpering(British), scatting, scramming, skipping (out), skirring beating a retreat, beating it, making tracks, turning tail bearding, braving, confronting, daring, defying, facingabiding, dwelling, hanging around, lingering, remaining, staying, sticking around, tarrying to use up all the physical energy ofthe trek up the mountain just about broke me burning out, busting, doing in, doing up, draining, exhausting, fagging, fatiguing, frazzling, harassing, killing, knocking out, outwearing, tiring, tuckering (out), washing out, wearing, wearing out, wearying debilitating, enervating, enfeebling, sapping, wasting, weakening wearing to a frazzle activating, energizing, invigorating, rejuvenating, strengthening, vitalizingrelaxing, resting, unwinding to become knownas soon as the scandal broke, the CEO fled the country circulating, coming out, getting about, getting around, getting out, getting round, leaking (out), outing, spreading developing, transpiring, unfoldingdisclosing, revealing, spilling, telling hushing (up), suppressingconcealing, disguising, hiding, maskingsecreting to cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debtsanother bad investment could break him to come into existencethe crisis had passed, and a new day was breaking actualizing, appearing, arising, beginning, commencing, dawning, engendering, forming, materializing, originating, setting in, springing, starting being, breathing, existing, living, subsistingarriving, coming on, emergingcoalescing, cohering, shaping (up)continuing, enduring, lasting, persisting, surviving ceasing, ending, stopping concluding, desisting, discontinuing, finishing, halting, quitting, terminatingdisappearing, dissolving, evaporating, vanishingdeparting, dying, expiring, passing away, perishing to depart abruptly from a straight line or coursethe running back broke to his left before running out of bounds cutting, sheering, swerving, veering, yawing, zagging, zigging skewing, slewing(also sluing)arching, arcing, bending, bowing, crooking, curving, hooking, rounding, sweeping, wheelingabout-facing, pivotingcircling, coiling, curling, looping, spiraling(or spiralling)turning, twisting, windingweaving, zigzaggingdeviating, straying, wandering, wavering straightening to diminish the price or value ofdistressing economic news that will break many energy stocks attenuating, cheapening, depreciating, depressing, devaluating, devaluing, downgrading, lowering, marking down, reducing, sinking, writing down, writing off debasing, demonetizingunderestimating, underpricing, underrating, undervaluingabridging, compressing, contracting, de-escalating, deflating, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, moderating, shrinking appreciating, enhancing, marking up, upgrading bloating, blowing up, inflatingoverestimating, overpricing, overrating, overvaluingadding, aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, ballooning, boosting, compounding, dilating, enlarging, escalating, expanding, extending, heightening, increasing, maximizing, multiplying, raising, swelling, upping to go beyond the limit ofa menu with prices that is likely to break the budgets of all but the wealthiest of diners exceeding, outreaching, outrunning, overpassing, overreaching, overrunning, overshooting, overstepping, surpassing, transcending encroaching, entrenching(also intrenching), infringing, invading, trespassingoverdoing, overusing, overutilizing, overworking to penetrate the surface (as of water) from belowdolphins were breaking all around the boat broaching, surfacing emerging, rising diving, dropping, drowning, foundering, plunging, sinking, submerging, submersing |