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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How to use breaking in a sentence?

1. Douglas Thisera:

   People who live near mangroves tell us the trees act as a buffer against the wind and heavy rains, breaking their intensity just before they make landfall.

2. Greg Abbott:

   Democrats must come back to Austin to ensure law enforcement has the funding they need to face this record-breaking challenge.

3. Sun-tzu:

   To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

4. Nickie Antonio:

   It was some kind of generational and cultural shame surrounding adoption, there were certain folks that saw it as breaking a promise to birth mothers.

5. Jean Lorrain:

   Polaire! The agitating and agitated Polaire! The tiny slip of a woman that you know, with the waist slender to the point of pain, of screaming out loud, of breaking in two, in a spasmically tight bodice, the prettiest slimness ...