break water

1. 1.

   show the fins above the water while swimming

   “The sharks were finning near the surface”

   Synonymsfin

   Broaderswim

Questions about break water

What does break water mean?

break water means "show the fins above the water while swimming".

What is another word for break water?

Close synonyms include fin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is break water a common word?

break water is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.