Synonyms of the word

abatement

• n. The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation;…
• n. The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount…
• n. (heraldry) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon; any figure added to the coat of arms tending to lower…
• n. (law) The action of a person that abates, or without proper authority enters a residence after the death…
• n. (law) The reduction of the proceeds of a will, when the debts have not yet been satisfied; the reduction…

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

hiatus

• n. A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
• n. An interruption, break or pause.
• n. An unexpected break from work.
• n. (geology) A gap in geological strata.
• n. (anatomy) An opening in an organ.
• n. (linguistics).

interruption

• n. The act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.
• n. A time interval during which there is a cessation of something.

mitigation

• n. relief; alleviation.

moderation

• n. The state or quality of being moderate; avoidance of extremes.
• n. An instance of moderating: bringing something away from extremes, especially in a beneficial way.
• n. The process of moderating a discussion.

reprieve

• v. (transitive) To cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution.
• v. (transitive) To bring relief to someone.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To take back to prison (in lieu of execution).
• n. The cancellation or postponement of a punishment.
• n. A document authorizing such an action.
• n. Relief from pain etc., especially temporary.

respite

• n. A brief interval of rest or relief.
• n. (law) A reprieve, especially from a sentence of death.
• n. (law) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.
• v. (transitive) To delay or postpone.

suspension

• n. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
• n. A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
• n. The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a…
• n. The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
• n. (education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly…
• n. (music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which…
• n. (Scots law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted…
• n. (topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an…
• n. (topology) A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function's domain…
• n. (vehicles) The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile or car,…