Scrabble & Words with friends points
- breaks is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 12
- breaks is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 12
- breaks is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 13
Definition of breaks
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving (noun)
Examples
- he was up two breaks in the second set
Synonyms
- break of serve
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone (noun)
Examples
- the break seems to have been caused by a fall
Synonyms
- fracture
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act (verb)
Synonyms
- break in
- be released or become known; of news (verb)
Synonyms
- get around
- get out
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns (verb)
Synonyms
- go against
- violate
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity (noun)
Examples
- it was presented without commercial breaks
Synonyms
- disruption
- gap
- interruption
- lessen in force or effect (verb)
Examples
- break a fall
Synonyms
- damp
- dampen
- soften
- weaken
- an escape from jail (noun)
Examples
- the breakout was carefully planned
Synonyms
- breakout
- gaolbreak
- jailbreak
- prison-breaking
- prisonbreak
- interrupt a continued activity (verb)
Synonyms
- break away
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up (verb)
Examples
- break into tears
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- burst
- erupt
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare (noun)
Examples
- the break in the eighth frame cost him the match
Synonyms
- open frame
- go to pieces (verb)
Synonyms
- bust
- fall apart
- wear
- wear out
- ruin completely (verb)
Synonyms
- bust
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises (verb)
Examples
- break a law
- break a promise
Synonyms
- breach
- go against
- infract
- offend
- transgress
- violate
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only (verb)
Synonyms
- check
- crack
- do a break dance (verb)
Examples
- Kids were break-dancing at the street corner
Synonyms
- break-dance
- break dance
- prevent completion (verb)
Examples
- break off the negotiations
Synonyms
- break off
- discontinue
- stop
- become separated into pieces or fragments (verb)
Synonyms
- come apart
- fall apart
- separate
- split up
- 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
- bring out
- disclose
- discover
- divulge
- expose
- give away
- let on
- let out
- reveal
- uncover
- unwrap
- terminate (verb)
Examples
- break a lucky streak
- break the cycle of poverty
Synonyms
- interrupt
- surpass in excellence (verb)
Examples
- break a record
Synonyms
- better
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways (verb)
Synonyms
- break up
- part
- separate
- split
- split up
- the act of breaking something (noun)
Examples
- the breakage was unavoidable
Synonyms
- breakage
- breaking
- happen (verb)
Synonyms
- develop
- recrudesce
- break down, literally or metaphorically (verb)
Synonyms
- cave in
- collapse
- fall in
- founder
- give
- give way
- a pause from doing something (as work) (noun)
Examples
- we took a 10-minute break
Synonyms
- recess
- respite
- time out
- stop operating or functioning (verb)
Synonyms
- break down
- conk out
- die
- fail
- give out
- give way
- go
- go bad
- fracture a bone of (verb)
Synonyms
- fracture
- reduce to bankruptcy (verb)
Examples
- My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!
Synonyms
- bankrupt
- ruin
- smash
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank (verb)
Synonyms
- bump
- demote
- kick downstairs
- relegate
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other (noun)
Synonyms
- fault
- faulting
- fracture
- geological fault
- shift
- break a piece from a whole (verb)
Examples
- break a branch from a tree
Synonyms
- break off
- snap off
- make submissive, obedient, or useful (verb)
Examples
- The horse was tough to break
Synonyms
- break in
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something (noun)
Synonyms
- intermission
- interruption
- pause
- suspension
- move away or escape suddenly (verb)
Examples
- Nobody can break out--this prison is high security
Synonyms
- break away
- break out
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) (noun)
Examples
- they hoped to avoid a break in relations
Synonyms
- breach
- falling out
- rift
- rupture
- severance
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity (noun)
Examples
- there was a break in the action when a player was hurt
Synonyms
- interruption
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items (verb)
Examples
- The book dealer would not break the set
Synonyms
- break up
- cease an action temporarily (verb)
Examples
- let's break for lunch
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- intermit
- pause
- an unexpected piece of good luck (noun)
Examples
- he finally got his big break
Synonyms
- good luck
- happy chance
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion) (noun)
Examples
- then there was a break in her voice
- a sudden dash (noun)
Examples
- he made a break for the open door
- be broken in (verb)
Examples
- If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress
- become punctured or penetrated (verb)
- cause the failure or ruin of (verb)
Examples
- This play will either make or break the playwright
- cause to give up a habit (verb)
- change directions suddenly (verb)
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another (verb)
- come forth or begin from a state of latency (verb)
- come into being (verb)
- come to an end (verb)
- crack; of the male voice in puberty (verb)
Examples
- his voice is breaking--he should no longer sing in the choir
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves (verb)
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments (verb)
- diminish or discontinue abruptly (verb)
- emerge from the surface of a body of water (verb)
- exchange for smaller units of money (verb)
Examples
- I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy
- fall sharply (verb)
- find a flaw in (verb)
Examples
- break an alibi
- break down a proof
- find the solution or key to (verb)
Examples
- break the code
- give up (verb)
Examples
- break cigarette smoking
- happen or take place (verb)
Examples
- Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months
- interrupt the flow of current in (verb)
Examples
- break a circuit
- invalidate by judicial action (verb)
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing (verb)
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls (verb)
- pierce or penetrate (verb)
- render inoperable or ineffective (verb)
- scatter or part (verb)
- separate from a clinch, in boxing (verb)
- the occurrence of breaking (noun)
Examples
- the break in the dam threatened the valley
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool (noun)
- undergo breaking (verb)
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity (verb)
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body (verb)
See definition of breaks in Merriam Webster