breaking
/ˈbɹeɪkɪŋ/ noun A2- The act by which something is broken.
- A change of a vowel to a diphthong.
- A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones.
- Breakdancing.
Plural breakings
From the library
From comparing notes afterwards it was but an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must have almost gone, and the dawn be breaking above us.
You’ll feel remorse of conscience someday, I expect, for breaking it, Marilla, but I forgive you.
“Unfortunately,” said Villefort, “there are the treaties of 1814, and we cannot molest Napoleon without breaking those compacts.”
In the east a-breaking,
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