breaking

The act by which something is broken.

Noun

  1. The act by which something is broken.
    • We, on the other hand, do not reject the occurrence of breakings of the natural order of things that occur in connection with a prescribed proclamation […] - 2009, John Renard, Tales of God's Friends: Islamic...
  2. A change of a vowel to a diphthong.
  3. A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones.
  4. Breakdancing.
    • The urban dance genre includes breaking, waacking, and house dancing, among others. - 2014, Karen Schupp, Studying Dance: A Guide for Campus and Beyond, page 48:

Forms

breakings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of break

Derived

backbreaking barns-breaking breaking and entering breaking change breakingly breaking news breaking of the waters car breaking codebreaking gamebreaking groundbreaking heartbreaking homebreaking horsebreaking housebreaking icebreaking inbreaking jawbreaking late-breaking lawbreaking microbreaking non-breaking nonbreaking oathbreaking