BREAKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breaking mean? 

• BREAKING (noun)
  The noun BREAKING has 1 sense:

1. the act of breaking something

  Familiarity information: BREAKING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREAKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of breaking something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

break; breakage; breaking

Context example:

the breakage was unavoidable

Hypernyms ("breaking" is a kind of...):

change of integrity (the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "breaking"):

rupture (the act of making a sudden noisy break)

shattering; smashing (the act of breaking something into small pieces)

crack; cracking; fracture (the act of cracking something)

chip; chipping; splintering (the act of chipping something)

 Context examples 

Injury of the soft tissues or bone without breaking the skin that is characterized by blood leakage into the surrounding area.

(Bruise, NCI Thesaurus)

We had scarcely filled away, it seemed, when the fog thinned abruptly and we were again in the sunshine, the wide-stretching sea breaking before us to the sky-line.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He stopped; his voice was breaking, and I do not know if rage or terror predominated in my own heart.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules.

(Chemical Cleavage, NCI Thesaurus)

Interchanges of genetic material among different chromosomes following the breaking off of pieces of chromosomes such that the total chromosome composition may still contain all of the genetic material.Balanced Chromosomal Rearrangement.

(Balanced Chromosomal Translocation, NCI Thesaurus)

The woman refilled his mug, at the same time breaking into light laughter.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It can show: • Whether you have osteoporosis, a disease that makes your bones weak • Your risk for breaking bones • Your response to osteoporosis treatment

(Bone Density, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

An oath from Perrault, the resounding impact of a club upon a bony frame, and a shrill yelp of pain, heralded the breaking forth of pandemonium.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

AMG 162 binds to the protein RANKL and helps keep bone from breaking down.

(Denosumab, NCI Dictionary)

The wreck, even to my unpractised eye, was breaking up.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)