breaking off

1. 1.

   an instance of sudden interruption

   Synonymsabruption

   Broaderbreak

Questions about breaking off

What does breaking off mean?

breaking off means "an instance of sudden interruption".

What is another word for breaking off?

Close synonyms include abruption. 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 breaking off a common word?

breaking off 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.