| breaking away | departing hastily |
break breakout
jailbreak
gaolbreak
prisonbreak
prison-breaking | an escape from jail, the breakout was carefully planned |
curve curve ball
breaking ball
bender | a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter |
breakage
break
breaking | the act of breaking something, the breakage was unavoidable |
| rupture | the act of making a sudden noisy break |
breakaway
breaking away | the act of breaking away or withdrawing from, there was a breakaway by the discontented members, a breaking away from family and neighborhood |
| ultimate frisbee | a game between two teams whose players try to toss a Frisbee to one another until they cross the opponents goal, possession changes hands when the Frisbee is intercepted or touches the ground or goes out of bounds |
crime
offense criminal offense
criminal offence
offence law-breaking | (criminal law) an act punishable by law, usually considered an evil act, a long record of crimes |
housebreaking
break-in
breaking and entering | trespassing for an unlawful purpose, illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent |
fart
farting
flatus
wind breaking wind | a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus |
breaking off
abruption | an instance of sudden interruption |
| ultimate | the finest or most superior quality of its kind, the ultimate in luxury |
| strength | the property of being physically or mentally strong, fatigue sapped his strength |
| tensile strength | the strength of material expressed as the greatest longitudinal stress it can bear without tearing apart |
potency
effectiveness strength | capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects, the toxin's potency, the strength of the drinks |
force
forcefulness
strength | physical energy or intensity, he hit with all the force he could muster, it was destroyed by the strength of the gale, a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man |
lastingness
durability
enduringness
strength | permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force, they advertised the durability of their products |
| intensity strength intensity level | the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation), he adjusted the intensity of the sound, they measured the station's signal strength |
field strength
field intensity | the vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the field |
magnetic field strength
magnetic intensity
magnetic induction
magnetic flux density | the amount of magnetic flux in a unit area perpendicular to the direction of magnetic flow |
forte strong suit
long suit
metier
specialty speciality strong point
strength | an asset of special worth or utility, cooking is his forte |
persuasiveness
strength | the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty, the strength of his argument settled the matter |
military capability
military strength
strength military posture
posture | capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war, we faced an army of great strength, politicians have neglected our military posture |
rupture
breach
break severance
rift
falling out | a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions), they hoped to avoid a break in relations |
tower of strength
pillar of strength | a person who can be relied on to give a great deal of support and comfort |
| breaking point | the degree of tension or stress at which something breaks |
| field strength unit | an electromagnetic unit of magnetic intensity |
| rupture | state of being torn or burst open |
| breaking point | (psychology) stress at which a person breaks down or a situation becomes crucial |
| strength | the condition of financial success, the strength of the company's stock in recent weeks |
manganese bronze
high-strength brass | a brass with from -% manganese to harden it |
tear
rupture
snap bust | separate or cause to separate abruptly, The rope snapped, tear the paper |
| record-breaking | surpassing any previously established record, a record-breaking high jump, record-breaking crowds |
neat
straight
full-strength | without water, took his whiskey neat |
| fast-breaking | occurring rapidly as a series of events in rapid succession, the broadcast was interrupted by a fast-breaking news story about the invasion |
| ultimate | being the last or concluding element of a series, the ultimate sonata of that opus, a distinction between the verb and noun senses of `conflict' is that in the verb the stress is on the ultimate (or last) syllable |
| ultimate | furthest or highest in degree or order, utmost or extreme, the ultimate achievement, the ultimate question, man's ultimate destiny, the ultimate insult, one's ultimate goal in life |
industrial-strength
weapons-grade | extremely strong or concentrated or durable, industrial-strength detergent, weapons-grade salsa |