English Explanatory Dictionary

breaking

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act by which something is broken.
  2. A change of a vowel to a diphthong.
  3. A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones.
  4. Breakdancing.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of break

Pronunciation

/ˈbɹeɪkɪŋ/ en-us-breaking.ogg

Word forms

breaking breakings

Derived words

backbreaking barns-breaking breaking and entering breaking change breakingly breaking news breaking of the waters car breaking codebreaking gamebreaking groundbreaking heartbreaking homebreaking horsebreaking housebreaking icebreaking inbreaking jawbreaking late-breaking lawbreaking microbreaking non-breaking nonbreaking oathbreaking outbreaking pairbreaking pathbreaking peacebreaking prison breaking record-breaking rulebreaking safebreaking sequence breaking shipbreaking shopbreaking strikebreaking strike breaking tiebreaking unbreaking windbreaking worldbreaking
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