Words Like BREAKING

We have put together a list of words that are similar to BREAKING.

8 Alternative Words Similar to breaking

1 Breakage Noun      Synonym Words Like Breakage
2 Break Noun      Synonym Words Like Break
3 Chip Noun      Hyponym Words Like Chip
4 Rupture Noun      Hyponym Words Like Rupture
5 Smashing Noun      Hyponym Words Like Smashing
6 Crack Noun      Hyponym Words Like Crack
7 Cracking Noun      Hyponym Words Like Cracking
8 Fracture Noun      Hyponym Words Like Fracture

1 examples of breaking

1 breaking news; a breaking story

10 definitions of breaking

1 p. pr. & vb. n. of break, v. i.
2 Still happening or becoming known at the present time; -- used of news reports.
3 The act of breaking something.
4 the act of breaking something
5 The change of a simple vowel to a diphthong, especially in various Germanic languages, often caused by the influence of neighboring consonants.
6 A form of urban dance involving styles such as rocking, popping, and b-boying, usually performed to funk. Also called break dancing.
7 In worsted-manuf., the process of uniting the short slivers, as received from the comber, into one continuous rope or sliver, by doubling and running through drawing-webs.
8 [Imitation of German brechung.] In philology, the change of one vowel to two before certain consonants, as, in Anglo-Saxon (where the phenomenon abounds), earm for *arm, arm, eorthe for *erthe, earth, etc.
9 Present participle of break.
10 A change of a vowel to a diphthong
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