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breaking

  • /ˈbɹeɪkɪŋ/

Sounds like braking · Rhymes with -eɪkɪŋ

noun breakings

  1. countable, uncountable The act by which something is broken. We, on the other hand, do not reject the occurrence of breakings of the natural order of things that occur in connection with a prescribed proclamation […]
  2. countable, uncountable A change of a vowel to a diphthong.
  3. countable, uncountable A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones.
  4. countable, uncountable Breakdancing. The urban dance genre includes breaking, waacking, and house dancing, among others.

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of break

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: breakage, fractured, breaching, fracture, shattering, shatter, collapse, rupture, ruptured, breach, burst, outbreak, severing, destruction, demolition, breakdown

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noun in linguistics: vowel breaking

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@misc{breaking_2026,
  title = {breaking},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/breaking},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}