Synonyms for breaking
ˈbreɪ kɪŋbreak·ing

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1. breakage, break, breakingnoun

   the act of breaking something

   "the breakage was unavoidable"

   Synonyms:
   recess, good luck, rift, fault, prison-breaking, gaolbreak, fracture, suspension, break of serve, happy chance, respite, geological fault, faulting, interruption, shift, break, time out, severance, pause, open frame, breach, disruption, jailbreak, gap, falling out, prisonbreak, breakage, rupture, intermission, breakout

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1. • Change Of Integrity

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1. breakingnoun

   Synonyms:
   rupture, fracture

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1. breakingnoun

   Synonyms:
   fracture, rupture, breach, infraction, violation

   Associated words:
   brittle, frangible, frangibility, tenacious, tenacity, inviolable, inviolability

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1. List of paraphrases for "breaking":

   break, rupture, breakage, violating, breakdown, broken, breaching, dismantling, breach, infringing

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1. Eric Leuthardt:

   What's interesting is that the blood-brain barrier is a two-way street, by breaking it down, you can get things into the brain, but also by breaking it down now things can go from your brain out into your circulation, to your peripheral system, which includes your immune system.

2. Simon Brundish:

   No team has ever not won Premier League from where Livepool currently are, but we have three record-breaking teams now -- Liverpool, Manchester City and Tottenham. This season is going to be record breaking.

3. Mariana Henry:

   Those are our neighbors. If we don't take care of them, they're going to be breaking into my house, they're going to be breaking into my car. It will affect me just as much as it affects everyone else, i don't want my kid going to school with half the population on drugs.

4. Sir Thomas More:

   Rules only make sense if they are both kept and broken. Breaking the rule is one way of observing it.

5. John Milton:

   When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well