Synonyms of the word

schism

• n. A split or separation within a group or organization, typically caused by discord.
• n. (religion) A formal division or split within a religious body.
• n. (Catholicism) a split within Christianity whereby a group no longer recognizes the Bishop of Rome as the…

breach

• n. A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee; the space between…
• n. A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
• n. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
• n. A breaking out upon; an assault.
• n. (archaic) A bruise; a wound.
• n. (archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
• n. (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
• n. (figuratively) A difference in opinions, social class etc.
• n. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
• v. (transitive) To make a breach in.
• v. (transitive) To violate or break.
• v. (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
• v. (intransitive, of a whale) To leap clear out of the water.

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…

division

• n. (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
• n. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
• n. (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
• n. (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
• n. (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
• n. A section of a large company.
• n. (taxonomy) A rank (Latin divisio) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi,…
• n. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
• n. (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived…
• n. (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
• n. (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of…
• n. (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
• n. (Britain, Eton College) A lesson; a class.

rift

• n. A chasm or fissure.
• n. A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
• n. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
• v. (intransitive) To form a rift.
• v. (transitive) To cleave; to rive; to split.
• v. (obsolete outside Scotland and northern Britain) To belch.
• v. past participle of rive.

rupture

• n. A burst, split, or break.
• n. A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
• n. (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
• n. (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.

severance

• n. The act of severing or the state of being severed.
• n. A separation.
• n. A severance payment.

split

• adj. Divided.
• adj. (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
• adj. (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
• adj. (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price…
• adj. (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than the usual eighths.
• adj. (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred…
• n. A crack or longitudinal fissure.
• n. A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
• n. A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
• n. (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
• n. (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase “to do the splits”) The acrobatic feat of spreading…
• n. (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
• n. (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between…
• n. A split shot or split stroke.
• n. A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
• n. A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliter or 1/4 quarter of a standard …
• n. A bottle of wine containing 0.375 liters, 1/2 the volume of a standard .75 liter bottle; a demi.
• n. (athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate point(s) in a race.
• n. (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
• n. (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt…
• n. (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists.
• v. (transitive, ergative) Of something solid, to divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
• v. (intransitive) Of something solid particularly wood, to break along the grain fully or partly along a…
• v. (transitive) To share; to divide.
• v. (slang) To leave.
• v. to separate or break up.
• v. To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
• v. To burst out laughing.
• v. (slang, dated) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
• v. (sports) In athletics (esp. baseball), when both teams involved in a doubleheader each win one game and…