Crossword clues for breaking
breaking
- Destroy the integrity of
- Make submissive, obedient, or useful, as of wild animals or new items
- Enter someone's property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- Prevent completion
- Force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- Be in violation of
- Move away or escape suddenly
- As of rules or patterns
- Ruin completely
- Render inoperable or ineffective
- Cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- Usually by force
- Become separated into pieces or fragments
- Cause the failure or ruin of
- Scatter or part
- Lessen in force or effect
- Happen or take place
- Come forth or begin from a state of latency
- Give up
- Cause to give up a habit
- Vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- Fail to agree with
- Be broken in
- Curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- Make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing (military usage)
- Interrupt a continued activity
- Stop operating or functioning
- Come into being
- Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- Surpass in excellence
- Come to an end
- Making pencil unusable is the last straw
- Critical stress on tip, it may be inferred
- Critical moment for collapse
- Silly ego trip in bank when situation gets critical
- Emerge from the surface, as of fish in water
- Separate from a clinch, in boxing
- Go different ways
- Make the opening shot that scatters the balls, in billiards or pool
- Go to pieces
- Destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- Exchange for smaller units of money
- Change directions suddenly
- Reduce to bankruptcy
- Pierce the surface of
- Assign to a lower position
- Find a flaw in
- Discontinue an association or relation
- Divide into pieces, as by bending or cutting
- Stop or interrupt
- Reduce in rank
- Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- Invalidate by judicial action
- End prematurely
- Diminish or discontinue abruptly
- Weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- Fracture a bone of
- Fall sharply
- Cease an action temporarily
- Happen, as of an event
- Become punctured or penetrated
- Change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- Find the solution or key to
- Interrupt the flow of current in
- Of news
- Be released or become known
- Pierce or penetrate
- Of the male voice in puberty
- Act in disregard of laws and rules
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
breaking \breaking\ adj.
p. pr. & vb. n. of break, v. i.
(Journalism) Still happening or becoming known at the present time; -- used of news reports; as, breaking news; a breaking story.
breaking \break"ing\ n. The act of breaking something.
Syn: breakage, break.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act by which something is broken. 2 (context linguistics English) A change of a vowel to a diphthong 3 (context music English) A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones 4 break dancing vb. (present participle of break English)
WordNet
adj. (of waves) curling over and crashing into surf or spray; "the breaking waves"
Wikipedia
Breaking may refer to:
- Breaking (martial arts), a martial arts skill
- Breaking (dancing) (or b-boying), a street dance style
- Breaking Bad, a television series
- Breaking Benjamin, a post-grunge rock band
- Vowel breaking, a historical linguistics term
- Breakin', a 1984 movie
- " Breakin'... There's No Stopping Us", a song by Ollie & Jerry from the ''Breakin' ''soundtrack
- Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
- "Breakin'" (song) from The Music's Welcome to the North
- "Breaking" (song), by the band Anberlin
- "Breaking" (album), by American singer-songwriter Brian Larsen
- Horse breaking
- Housebreaking
- Sabbath breaking
- Sequence breaking
- Ship breaking
- Strike breaking
- Breaking news
- Voice break, a boy's voice deepening at puberty
- Spring breaking, the act of vacationing on spring break
- Use of break (music)
Breaking is a martial arts technique that is used in competition, demonstration and testing. Breaking is an action where a martial artist uses a striking surface to break one or more objects using the skills honed in their art form. The striking surface is usually a hand or a foot, but may also be a fingertip, toe, head, elbow, knuckle, or knee. The most common object is a piece of wood or brick, though it is also common to break cinder blocks, glass, or even a piece of metal such as steel bars. Glass is usually discouraged, since its shards may cause injury when broken.
Breaking can often be seen in karate, taekwondo and pencak silat. Spetsnaz are also known for board and brick breaking, but not all styles of martial arts place equal emphasis on it or use it. In styles where striking and kicking are less important and there is an emphasis on grappling or weaponry, breaking is less prominent. Traditional Japanese martial art schools place little, if any, emphasis on board-breaking, although the art of breaking objects was known as tameshiwari, while the similar practice of Tameshigiri or 'test cutting' is used in sword arts.
"Breaking" is a song by American alternative rock band, Anberlin, and the second single from their album New Surrender. The release date for the song was originally set for January 2009, then February 16, but was pushed back several more times due to the continued success of previous single " Feel Good Drag". The song officially impacted radio on June 29, 2009 and reached number 23 on the Alternative Songs chart. It has also reached number 37 on the U.S. Rock Songs chart.
Breaking is the eighth full-length album by American musician Brian Larsen, first released in August 2009 (see 2009 in music) and the first released under Larsen's own name. The album was produced, written, and performed in its entirety by Larsen.
Usage examples of "breaking".
The arrest of the abnormal breaking down of the tissues, and the prevention of emaciation.
Smith gasped, his Highland accent breaking through the English veneer, as it always did in stressful situations.
That there can be no forgiveness of sins, thus no salvation but only eternal damnation, apart from self-examination, the knowledge and acknowledgment, confession and breaking off of sins, that is, apart from repentance?
In retrospect, Addle realized that the whole event should have been much more terrifying: breaking into a cemetery near midnight, on an evening when the moon was a great bloodshot eye in the sky.
In doses of from twenty to sixty drops of the fluid extract, administered in a cup of warm water or herb-tea on going to bed, we have found it very effectual for breaking up recent colds.
Twenty-five feet above them, from the aft part of the sail, the Bigmouth antenna raised steadily upward, the top of the mast breaking the surface.
The commons appeared determined no longer to brook a delay of the agrarian law, and extreme violence was on the eve of being resorted to, when it was ascertained from the burning of the country-houses and the flight of the peasants that the Volscians were at hand: this circumstance checked the sedition that was now ripe and almost breaking out.
He was so ashamed of breaking ahimsa that his body fell slack and the other boys managed to pin him to the floor.
I regarded aikido as a gentler discipline than karate or kung-fu, and one more likely to prevail without breaking bones.
She uses the glove box for the last time, breaking open a vial of sodium fluoride solution and injecting an aliquot into every one of the cell cultures.
She shewed me her house and her jewels, told me the story of her amours with the duke, of her breaking with him on account of his perpetual infidelities, and of her marriage with a man she despised, but who was forced on her by her position.
An Innocent Amourette One feels almost brutally rude in breaking in upon the privacy of this little romance.
The backwash of the breaking waves was a broad white road, cut aslant by the hull of the fishing boat.
Intelligence soon reached him, however, of the magnitude of the blow aimed by Lee, and, hastily breaking up his camps on the Rappahannock, he hurried to attack the force assailing his communications.
Finally I was astonished to find myself reflecting that I should have had no scruple in breaking the bank in the way suggested, if it had only been for the sake of making the company laugh.