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