breaks




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breaks - noun

  • some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
  • an unexpected piece of good luck
  • (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
  • a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
  • a pause from doing something (as work)
  • the act of breaking something
  • a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
  • breaking of hard tissue such as bone
  • the occurrence of breaking
  • an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
  • the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
  • (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
  • an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
  • a sudden dash
  • any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
  • an escape from jail
  • breaks - thesaurus

    breach   breakage   breaking   breakout   disruption   fault   faulting   fracture   gaolbreak   gap   intermission   interruption   jailbreak   pause   prisonbreak   recess   respite   rift   rupture   severance   shift   suspension  

    Scrabble score for breaks

    b is 3 r is 1 e is 1 a is 1 k is 5 s is 1
    Scrabble score = 12

    generated at 04:06:30 on 18-12-23

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