Definition of breaks

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

  1. he was up two breaks in the second set

  Synonyms

  1. break of serve
• breaking of hard tissue such as bone (noun)

  Examples

  1. the break seems to have been caused by a fall

  Synonyms

  1. 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

  1. break in
• be released or become known; of news (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. get around
  2. get out
• fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. go against
  2. violate
• an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity (noun)

  Examples

  1. it was presented without commercial breaks

  Synonyms

  1. disruption
  2. gap
  3. interruption
• lessen in force or effect (verb)

  Examples

  1. break a fall

  Synonyms

  1. damp
  2. dampen
  3. soften
  4. weaken
• an escape from jail (noun)

  Examples

  1. the breakout was carefully planned

  Synonyms

  1. breakout
  2. gaolbreak
  3. jailbreak
  4. prison-breaking
  5. prisonbreak
• interrupt a continued activity (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. break away
• force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up (verb)

  Examples

  1. break into tears

  Synonyms

  1. burst
  2. erupt
• any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare (noun)

  Examples

  1. the break in the eighth frame cost him the match

  Synonyms

  1. open frame
• go to pieces (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. bust
  2. fall apart
  3. wear
  4. wear out
• ruin completely (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. bust
• act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises (verb)

  Examples

  1. break a law
  2. break a promise

  Synonyms

  1. breach
  2. go against
  3. infract
  4. offend
  5. transgress
  6. violate
• become fractured; break or crack on the surface only (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. check
  2. crack
• do a break dance (verb)

  Examples

  1. Kids were break-dancing at the street corner

  Synonyms

  1. break-dance
  2. break dance
• prevent completion (verb)

  Examples

  1. break off the negotiations

  Synonyms

  1. break off
  2. discontinue
  3. stop
• become separated into pieces or fragments (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. come apart
  2. fall apart
  3. separate
  4. 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

  1. bring out
  2. disclose
  3. discover
  4. divulge
  5. expose
  6. give away
  7. let on
  8. let out
  9. reveal
  10. uncover
  11. unwrap
• terminate (verb)

  Examples

  1. break a lucky streak
  2. break the cycle of poverty

  Synonyms

  1. interrupt
• surpass in excellence (verb)

  Examples

  1. break a record

  Synonyms

  1. better
• discontinue an association or relation; go different ways (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. break up
  2. part
  3. separate
  4. split
  5. split up
• the act of breaking something (noun)

  Examples

  1. the breakage was unavoidable

  Synonyms

  1. breakage
  2. breaking
• happen (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. develop
  2. recrudesce
• break down, literally or metaphorically (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. cave in
  2. collapse
  3. fall in
  4. founder
  5. give
  6. give way
• a pause from doing something (as work) (noun)

  Examples

  1. we took a 10-minute break

  Synonyms

  1. recess
  2. respite
  3. time out
• stop operating or functioning (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. break down
  2. conk out
  3. die
  4. fail
  5. give out
  6. give way
  7. go
  8. go bad
• fracture a bone of (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. fracture
• reduce to bankruptcy (verb)

  Examples

  1. My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!

  Synonyms

  1. bankrupt
  2. ruin
  3. smash
• assign to a lower position; reduce in rank (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. bump
  2. demote
  3. kick downstairs
  4. relegate
• (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. fault
  2. faulting
  3. fracture
  4. geological fault
  5. shift
• break a piece from a whole (verb)

  Examples

  1. break a branch from a tree

  Synonyms

  1. break off
  2. snap off
• make submissive, obedient, or useful (verb)

  Examples

  1. The horse was tough to break

  Synonyms

  1. break in
• a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. intermission
  2. interruption
  3. pause
  4. suspension
• move away or escape suddenly (verb)

  Examples

  1. Nobody can break out--this prison is high security

  Synonyms

  1. break away
  2. break out
• a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) (noun)

  Examples

  1. they hoped to avoid a break in relations

  Synonyms

  1. breach
  2. falling out
  3. rift
  4. rupture
  5. severance
• some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity (noun)

  Examples

  1. there was a break in the action when a player was hurt

  Synonyms

  1. interruption
• destroy the completeness of a set of related items (verb)

  Examples

  1. The book dealer would not break the set

  Synonyms

  1. break up
• cease an action temporarily (verb)

  Examples

  1. let's break for lunch

  Synonyms

  1. intermit
  2. pause
• an unexpected piece of good luck (noun)

  Examples

  1. he finally got his big break

  Synonyms

  1. good luck
  2. happy chance
• an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion) (noun)

  Examples

  1. then there was a break in her voice
• a sudden dash (noun)

  Examples

  1. he made a break for the open door
• be broken in (verb)

  Examples

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy
• fall sharply (verb)
• find a flaw in (verb)

  Examples

  1. break an alibi
  2. break down a proof
• find the solution or key to (verb)

  Examples

  1. break the code
• give up (verb)

  Examples

  1. break cigarette smoking
• happen or take place (verb)

  Examples

  1. Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months
• interrupt the flow of current in (verb)

  Examples

  1. 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

  1. 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