break (5 letters)
break
11
- Length
- 5 letters
- Scrabble score
- 11 points
- Frequency
- Common
- Pronunciation
- BRAYK
What it means
- noun — some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- noun — an unexpected piece of good luck
- noun — (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- noun — a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- noun — a pause from doing something (as work)
- noun — the act of breaking something
- noun — a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- noun — breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- noun — the occurrence of breaking
- noun — an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- noun — the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- noun — (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- noun — an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- noun — a sudden dash
- noun — any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- noun — an escape from jail
- verb — terminate
- verb — become separated into pieces or fragments
- verb — render inoperable or ineffective
- verb — ruin completely
- verb — destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- verb — act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- verb — move away or escape suddenly
- verb — scatter or part
- verb — force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- verb — prevent completion
- verb — enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- verb — make submissive, obedient, or useful
- verb — fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- verb — surpass in excellence
- verb — 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 — come into being
- verb — stop operating or functioning
- verb — interrupt a continued activity
- verb — make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- verb — curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- verb — lessen in force or effect
- verb — be broken in
- verb — come to an end
- verb — vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- verb — cause to give up a habit
- verb — give up
- verb — come forth or begin from a state of latency
- verb — happen or take place
- verb — cause the failure or ruin of
- verb — invalidate by judicial action
- verb — discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- verb — assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- verb — reduce to bankruptcy
- verb — change directions suddenly
- verb — emerge from the surface of a body of water
- verb — break down, literally or metaphorically
- verb — do a break dance
- verb — exchange for smaller units of money
- verb — destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- verb — make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- verb — separate from a clinch, in boxing
- verb — go to pieces
- verb — break a piece from a whole
- verb — become punctured or penetrated
- verb — pierce or penetrate
- verb — be released or become known; of news
- verb — cease an action temporarily
- verb — interrupt the flow of current in
- verb — undergo breaking
- verb — find a flaw in
- verb — find the solution or key to
- verb — change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- verb — happen
- verb — become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- verb — crack; of the male voice in puberty
- verb — fall sharply
- verb — fracture a bone of
- verb — diminish or discontinue abruptly
- verb — weaken or destroy in spirit or body