Break Synonyms and Antonyms

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The effect of breaking
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. fracture
  2. crack
  3. split
  4. tear
  5. fault
  6. faulting
  7. separation
  8. geological fault
  9. shift
Fortunate change or event: often plural
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. good-luck
  2. accident
  3. favorable circumstances
  4. opportunity
Antonyms:
  1. misfortune
  2. bad-luck
To start a rupture
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. burst
  2. crack
  3. cut
  4. cleave
  5. fracture
  6. rend
  7. rupture
  8. sever
  9. sunder
  10. bust
  11. pierce
  12. tear
  13. disjoin
  14. snap
  15. divide
  16. separate
  17. split
  18. rive
  19. alienation
  20. alter
  21. announce
  22. break-into
  23. atomize
  24. bankrupt
  25. batter
  26. blank
  27. break through
  28. blunder
  29. boon
  30. breather
  31. broach
  32. bruise
  33. force open
  34. chip
  35. puncture
  36. cleft
  37. comminute
  38. communicate
  39. crackle
  40. crevice
  41. cripple
  42. crumble
  43. breach
  44. cutoff
  45. dash
  46. decompose
  47. defeat
  48. destroy
  49. dampen
  50. disable
  51. discipline
  52. disclose
  53. slash
  54. disintegrate
  55. disobey
  56. dispart
  57. gash
  58. disrupt
  59. divaricate
  60. division
  61. divulge
  62. dissect
  63. down
  64. eradicate
  65. escape
  66. exhaust
  67. fissure
  68. slice
  69. flee
  70. fold
  71. fraction
  72. fractionalize
  73. detach
  74. fragment
  75. gap
  76. hiatus
  77. impair
  78. impart
  79. impoverish
  80. in
  81. infringe
  82. intermission
  83. interrupt
  84. interruption
  85. interval
  86. invalidate
  87. lapse
  88. liquidate
  89. lull
  90. damp
  91. off
  92. opening
  93. opportunity
  94. out
  95. pause
  96. penetrate
  97. pick
  98. plow
  99. pluck
  100. point
  101. pulverize
  102. reave
  103. rent
  104. respite
  105. rift
  106. ruin
  107. scarify
  108. schismatize
  109. secede
  110. separation
  111. shatter
  112. shiver
  113. shot
  114. slip
  115. smash
  116. spall
  117. splinter
  118. stave
  119. stop
  120. tame
  121. soften
  122. tell
  123. transgress
  124. trespass
  125. triturate
  126. vaporize
  127. violate
  128. wound
  129. weaken
  130. erupt
To shatter
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. smash
  2. crack
  3. shatter
  4. splinter
  5. crash
  6. crush
  7. fracture
  8. break up
  9. break to atoms
  10. shiver
  11. smash to flinders
  12. pull to pieces
  13. bankrupt
  14. break all to pieces
  15. fragment
  16. fragmentize
  17. crumble
  18. burst
  19. bust-up
  20. split
  21. break all to smithereens
  22. ruin
  23. deconsecrate
  24. check
Antonyms:
  1. keep-quiet
  2. hide
  3. secret
To fall apart
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. break down
  2. collapse
  3. cave in
  4. disintegrate
  5. give-way
  6. fall-apart
  7. shiver
  8. burst
  9. shatter
  10. fall-to-pieces
  11. splinter
  12. crumble
  13. come-apart
  14. come off
  15. get loose
  16. fall off
  17. fall down
  18. dilapidate
  19. go to wrack and ruin
  20. break off
  21. get wrecked
  22. break into flinders
  23. split
  24. be destroyed
  25. get busted
  26. fall-in
  27. fold-up
  28. come-unstuck
  29. come unglued
  30. come apart at the seams
  31. give
  32. founder
  33. snap off
Antonyms:
  1. stay
  2. wait
To bring to ruin or to an end
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. demolish
  2. annihilate
  3. bust
  4. eradicate
  5. crush
Antonyms:
  1. make
  2. repair
To make tractable or spiritless
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. break-in
  2. subdue
  3. tame
  4. wear down
To happen
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. develop
  2. come-to-pass
  3. come-into-being
  4. recrudesce
  5. occur
  6. fail
  7. go-bad
  8. give-way
  9. die
  10. disaccustom
  11. give out
  12. conk out
  13. go
  14. break down
  15. disenthrone
Antonyms:
  1. strengthen
  2. cause
  3. allow
  4. stabilize
Fracture a bone of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. break up
  2. fracture
Move away or escape suddenly
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. break-away
  2. break out
Prevent completion
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. demote
  2. break off
  3. bump
  4. discontinue
  5. unsaddle
  6. relegate
  7. stop
  8. kick-downstairs
  9. unthrone
Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. separate
  2. part
  3. split-up
  4. split
  5. break up
Do a break dance
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. break dance
Become separated into pieces or fragments
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. fall-apart
  2. wear
  3. separate
  4. wear out
  5. split-up
  6. bust
  7. come-apart
An escape from jail
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. breakout
  2. jailbreak
  3. gaolbreak
  4. prisonbreak
  5. prison-breaking
Any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. open frame
Surpass in excellence
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. better
An unexpected piece of good luck
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. good-luck
  2. happy-chance
(tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. break of serve
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. hiatal
  2. perfidious
  3. traitorous

Words Related to Break

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Break Sentence Examples

  • If you break it, you replace it.

  • Give yourself a break and get some rest.

  • Are you opposed to a break now and then?

  • One of Helen's old habits, that is strongest and hardest to correct, is a tendency to break things.

  • I've been getting the feeling she is trying to break us up.

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