Breaking and Rending

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Breaking noun - The act of breaking something.

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Rending and breaking are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rending" instead a noun "Breaking".

Nearby Words: break, breach, breakdown, breakup, breakable

Rending adjective - Resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree.

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Breaking and rending are semantically related. You can use "Breaking" instead a noun "Rending".

Nearby Words: render, rend, rendition

In portrayals, when actors take it too big (start chewing the sets, rending the wardrobe, inserting pratfalls, etc.), they are level-breaking by going "over the top." If they play it too flat, they are breaking by way of "phoning it in."

Source: Level Breaker

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