Breaking Synonyms and Antonyms

brākĭng
A fracture
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. cleavage
  2. rupture
  3. separating
A violation
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. transgressing
  2. breach
  3. shattering
  4. breakage
  5. violating
  6. break
Happen
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. developing
  2. fracturing
  3. occurring
To make tractable or spiritless
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. taming
  2. subduing
Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. divulging
  2. revealing
  3. exposing
  4. discovering
  5. telling
  6. disclosing
  7. unwrapping
Cease an action temporarily
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. intermitting
  2. disrupting
  3. recessing
  4. interrupting
  5. discontinuing
  6. pausing
Antonyms:
  1. allowing
  2. causing
Fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. violating
  2. contravening
  3. breaching
  4. transgressing
  5. offending
  6. infringing
Antonyms:
  1. agreeing
  2. keeping
  3. making
  4. obeying
Cause the failure or ruin of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. crushing
  2. busting
  3. eradicating
  4. annihilating
  5. demolishing
Antonyms:
  1. repairing
  2. making
  3. stabilizing
  4. strengthening
Force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. splitting
  2. erupting
  3. weakening
  4. collapsing
  5. bursting
  6. crumbling
  7. softening
  8. splintering
  9. shivering
  10. dampening
Antonyms:
  1. waiting
  2. staying
Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. separating
  2. bursting
  3. busting
  4. disjoining
  5. stopping
  6. snapping
  7. piercing
  8. cleaving
  9. wounding
  10. violating
  11. vaporizing
  12. tearing
  13. trespassing
  14. transgressing
  15. telling
  16. taming
  17. splintering
  18. fracturing
  19. smashing
  20. slipping
  21. shivering
  22. detaching
  23. seceding
  24. severing
  25. ruining
  26. slicing
  27. renting
  28. pulverizing
  29. dissecting
  30. pointing
  31. plucking
  32. rupturing
  33. plowing
  34. gashing
  35. picking
  36. penetrating
  37. pausing
  38. slashing
  39. outing
  40. off
  41. lulling
  42. rending
  43. liquidating
  44. lapsing
  45. invalidating
  46. interrupting
  47. infringing
  48. breaching
  49. impoverishing
  50. parting
  51. imparting
  52. splitting
  53. impairing
  54. fragmenting
  55. folding
  56. fleeing
  57. puncturing
  58. exhausting
  59. escaping
  60. cracking
  61. cutting
  62. eradicating
  63. downing
  64. riving
  65. divulging
  66. disrupting
  67. disobeying
  68. disintegrating
  69. disclosing
  70. disciplining
  71. disabling
  72. destroying
  73. defeating
  74. decomposing
  75. dashing
  76. crumbling
  77. crippling
  78. crackling
  79. communicating
  80. chipping
  81. bruising
  82. broaching
  83. blundering
  84. battering
  85. bankrupting
  86. announcing
  87. altering
  88. discontinuing
Antonyms:
  1. hiding
  2. fastening
  3. attaching
  4. securing
  5. fixing
  6. mending
  7. joining
Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. relegating
  2. smashing
  3. bumping
  4. ruining
  5. bankrupting
  6. demoting
Go to pieces
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. busting
  2. separating
  3. wearing
Stop operating or functioning
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. going
  2. dying
  3. failing
Surpass in excellence
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. bettering
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. sundering
  2. dissevering
  3. exploding
  4. disintegrating
  5. caving-in
  6. falling
  7. dispersing
  8. going to pot
Antonyms:
  1. enduring
  2. strong
  3. stable

Words Related to Breaking

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Breaking Sentence Examples

  • Breaking all the rules.

  • God, I'm sorry, breaking down like that.

  • Her heart was breaking.

  • He died in Mexico, from the kick of a horse he was breaking in, on the 7th of February 1692.

  • Sultan Mahmud now devoted himself to breaking the overgrown power of the local governors, which had for many years practically annihilated that of the central authority.

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