| BREAKABLE | • breakable adj. Able to break or be broken. • breakable adj. Fragile. • breakable n. Something that is (easily) breakable. |
| BREAKAGES | • breakages n. Plural of breakage. • BREAKAGE n. the act of breaking. |
| BREAKAWAY | • breakaway adj. Having broken away from a larger unit. • breakaway adj. Capable of breaking off without damaging the larger structure. • breakaway adj. (Ice hockey) Occurring during or as a result of a breakaway (see Noun). |
| BREAKBACK | • breakback adj. Synonym of backbreaking (“of work, very physically tiring”). • break␣back v. (Tennis, of a receiver) To win a game having lost a service game, or during a tiebreak, to win a point… • BREAKBACK adj. crushing. |
| BREAKBEAT | • breakbeat n. (Music, countable) A form of syncopated rhythm prominent in much African music. • breakbeat n. (Music, uncountable) A genre of electronic dance music based on such syncopated rhythms. • BREAKBEAT n. in house music, a short sample of drum beats taken from old soul or jazz records. |
| BREAKBONE | • breakbone n. (Pathology, uncountable) dengue fever. • breakbone n. (US dialect, countable) A chicken’s wishbone. • breakbone adj. Violent; rough and painful. |
| BREAKDOWN | • breakdown n. A failure, particularly mechanical in nature. • breakdown n. Something that has experienced a mechanical failure. • breakdown n. A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability. |
| BREAKEVEN | • breakeven n. Alternative spelling of break-even. • breakeven adj. Alternative spelling of break-even. • breakeven v. (Nonstandard) Alternative spelling of break even. |
| BREAKFAST | • breakfast n. The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning. • breakfast n. (By extension) A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include… • breakfast n. The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral). |
| BREAKINGS | • breakings n. Plural of breaking. • BREAKING n. the act of breaking. |
| BREAKNECK | • breakneck adj. Dangerously fast; hell-for-leather. • breakneck n. A fall that breaks the neck. • breakneck n. A dangerous steep place from which one could fall badly. |
| BREAKOFFS | • breakoffs n. Plural of breakoff. • break-offs n. Plural of break-off. • BREAKOFF n. an act of breaking off or stopping. |
| BREAKOUTS | • breakouts n. Plural of breakout. • BREAKOUT n. an escape. |
| BREAKTIME | • breaktime n. (US) A break for a worker or workers that splits a period of work. • breaktime n. (UK) A break for schoolchildren between lessons. • break␣time n. Alternative form of breaktime. |
| BREAKWALL | • breakwall n. A wall, typically built outside of a harbour, that diminishes damage due to battering by the waves. • BREAKWALL n. a protective wall built offshore and usually parallel to the shore. |