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[ adjective ] (of waves) curling over and crashing into surf or spray
Examples : "the breaking waves" Used in print (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)One looked down on a sea of leaves , a breaking wave of flower . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the act of breaking something
Examples "the breakage was unavoidable" Used in print (Ralph B. Long. The Sentence and Its Parts: A...)From the point_of_view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken , and from the point_of_view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; but dominant stress will be assigned to broken only in rather exceptional versions of the sentence . |
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