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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1. Stephen Hargarten:

   Where is the federal government in all of this ? When there are so many deaths, we need to invest in this issue now, look what we did with HIV and AIDS when it was breaking out in the'80s and'90s. The federal government addressed it, and the complexity and the political issues, and it helped groups most at risk, by investing our resources appropriately, and it made a huge difference in that disease process. It's imperative that we do that for guns.

2. Tsang Yin-hung:

   I just feel kind of relief and happy because I am not looking for breaking a record, i feel relieved because I can prove my work to my friends, to my students.

3. Scott C. Holstad:

   she wants to to be loved for a few hours at least. I look away, people need peace. it’s raining hard outside; lives are breaking in the storm.

4. Maureen Ternus:

   Once you start breaking down a nut, it just lessens the time for freshness.

5. Kristen Walker:

   Conservation, sustainable and equitable management of nature plays an important role in preventing conflict and in rebuilding peace, for example, it supports livelihoods and wellbeing of indigenous and local communities in times of peace and helps reduce the risk of conflicts breaking out.