Noun
1. interruption
2. happening, occurrence, natural event, good luck
3. happy chance, accident, fortuity, chance event, fault
4. geological fault, shift, fracture, crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure, rupture
5. breach, severance, rift, falling out, separation, breakup, detachment, respite
6. recess, time out, pause, breakage
7. breaking, change of integrity, pause
8. intermission, interruption, suspension, time interval, interval, fracture
9. injury, hurt, harm, trauma, separation
10. breakup, detachment, stroke
11. shot, break of serve
12. score, interruption
13. disruption, gap, delay, holdup, dash
14. sprint, open frame
15. score, breakout
Verb
1. jailbreak, gaolbreak, prisonbreak, prison-breaking, escape, flight, interrupt
2. end, terminate, separate
3. split up, fall apart, come apart, change integrity, break up8, separate
4. divide, damage
5. bust
6. destroy, ruin, break up, break apart, break off, break up, break down, transgress
7. offend, infract, violate, go against, breach, disrespect, break out
8. break away, escape, get away, break loose, disperse
9. dissipate, scatter, spread out, burst
10. erupt, express emotion, express feelings, break off
11. discontinue, stop, end, terminate, break in
12. trespass, intrude, break in
13. domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame, violate
14. go against, better
15. surpass, outstrip, outmatch, outgo, exceed, outdo, surmount, outperform, disclose
16. let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, impart, give away, let out, tell, become
17. go, get, fail
18. go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break down, change, break away
19. separate, part, split up, split, break up, flee
20. fly, take flight, collapse
21. fall in, cave in, give, give way, founder, dampen
22. damp, soften, weaken, deaden, blunt, change
23. end
24. stop, finish, terminate, cease, change
25. alter, vary, discontinue
26. stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off, come forth
27. emerge, happen
28. hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place, ruin
29. invalidate
30. annul, quash, void, avoid, nullify, separate
31. part, split up, split, break up, demote
32. bump, relegate, kick downstairs, delegate, designate, depute, assign, bankrupt
33. ruin, smash, impoverish, switch
34. shift, change, appear
35. collapse
36. fall in, cave in, give, give way, founder, change, break dance
37. break-dance, dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe, change
38. exchange, commute, convert, break up
39. change, alter, modify, shoot
40. separate
41. disunite, divide, part, wear
42. wear out, bust, fall apart, decay, crumble, delapidate, break away, break off, break up, break apart, break off
43. snap off, detach, penetrate
44. perforate, get out
45. get around, pause
46. intermit, interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off, interrupt
47. disrupt, break up, cut off, diphthongize
48. diphthongise, destroy
49. ruin, solve
50. work out, figure out, puzzle out, lick, work, switch
51. shift, change, recrudesce
52. develop, happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place, break out, break through, crack
53. check, change, change state
54. turn, decrease
55. diminish, lessen, fall, fracture
56. injure, wound, decrease
57. diminish, lessen, fall, weaken
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