breaking
1(of a news story) currently developing or having happened recently and being released for publication or airing, as on television or radio, in print, or on the internet:Our network aims to be your trusted source for breaking news, local weather, and sports.
coming into being suddenly: When I awoke, it was breaking day over the eastern horizon.
changing or collapsing suddenly:This is a photograph of a breaking wave in the subantarctic waters of the Southern Ocean.
Origin of breaking
1Words Nearby breaking
Other definitions for breaking (2 of 3)
Phonology. the change of a pure vowel to a diphthong, especially in certain environments, as, in Old English, the change of a vowel to a diphthong under the influence of a following consonant or combination of consonants, as the change of -a- to -ea- and of -e- to -eo- before preconsonantal r or l and before h, as in earm “arm” developed from arm, and eorthe “earth” from erthe.
Origin of breaking
2- Also called vow·el frac·ture [vou-uhl frak-cher]. /ˈvaʊ əl ˌfræk tʃər/.
Other definitions for breaking (3 of 3)
Origin of breaking
3Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use breaking in a sentence
She paid a visit to a dance studio in Washington that specialized in breaking — better known as break dancing to anyone who remembers the 1980s or simply breakin’ to many participants — and it didn’t take long before mother and son were hooked.
How break dancing made the leap from ’80s pop culture to the Olympic stage | Rick Maese | February 9, 2021 | Washington PostWithin the breaking community, there have always been factions focused on the art and the performance, and others who thrive on battles and competition.
How break dancing made the leap from ’80s pop culture to the Olympic stage | Rick Maese | February 9, 2021 | Washington PostAs the children skipped over the breaking waves with their grandparents, things almost felt normal again, Shannon said.
900,000 infected. Nearly 15,000 dead. How the coronavirus tore through D.C., Maryland and Virginia. | Rebecca Tan, Antonio Olivo, John D. Harden | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostThe team was originally formed to produce breaking news for Snapchat’s Discover platform for publishers.
How The Washington Post’s new Instagram editor will try to boost its subscription business | Sara Guaglione | February 2, 2021 | DigidayRather than being seen as a threat to research careers, leading organizations in pharma and chemicals are demonstrating that digital provides new opportunities for collaboration and the breaking down of silos.
Digital innovation in the pharmaceuticals and chemicals industries | Jason Sparapani | January 26, 2021 | MIT Technology Review
“We saw his background and he was a Bronx guy and we started breaking the case,” Boyce says.
breaking the will of ISIS, the military argues, is not a statistic.
Pentagon Doesn’t Know How Many People It’s Killed in the ISIS War | Nancy A. Youssef | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAgainst this backdrop, Paul breaking bread with Sharpton may be too much for Republican primary voters to watch or stomach.
He said, “I am breaking my heart over this story, and cannot bear to finish it.”
It was so potent, given all the ways the world is breaking many people, his people, down.
Kendrick Lamar Shuts Down ‘The Colbert Report’ with Untitled Track | Charlise Ferguson | December 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTStrive to speak or sing fluently without breaking the quality of tone used.
Expressive Voice Culture | Jessie Eldridge SouthwickSay that my anger has no bounds—that my heart is breaking—will break and kill me, if he persists in his ingratitude and cruelty.
The gigantic pylon, its shoulders breaking the sky four-square far overhead, seemed the prodigious portal of another world.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodHe swam with her upon the summit of the breaking Wave, lifted upon its crest, swept onward irresistibly.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodThe red flashes were breaking out like a bunch of firecrackers, and with pretty much the same sound.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. Sinclair
British Dictionary definitions for breaking
/ (ˈbreɪkɪŋ) /
linguistics (in Old English, Old Norse, etc) the change of a vowel into a diphthong
Origin of breaking
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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