breaker
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4.7
- noun
- /ˈbreɪkər/
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- As the surfers paddled out, they eagerly awaited the perfect breakers crashing against the shore.
We we say make sure you're swimming out past the Breakers.
- We we say make sure you're swimming out past the Breakers.
Examples
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There were rollers advancing shoreward, the water pale green where breakers churned the shallow sea.
Fiction book (1999) -
First, a white line of breakers, and then something like a fish in the middle.
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Making it past the breakers in something that small is impossible.
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Donna sits above him, looking out to the breakers, listening.
Fiction book (1991) -
Tell him there's a ship trying to get through the breakers.
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The raft remained seaworthy, but breakers destroyed vital supplies and equipment.
Academic text (2002) -
Beyond the breakers, the sea churned with whitecaps, as though Poseidon were taking revenge against Odysseus.
Academic text (2000) -
Archer is thrashed ashore by the breakers... he crawls gasping onto the sand.
Fiction book (1997) -
The sound of the breakers echoed as they pounded the sandy beach, creating a rhythmic melody of the ocean.
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Children laughed and played as they ran into the shallow water, splashing in the foamy breakers on a sunny day.
Synonyms
106
1.6
The line of white foam made when waves break on the shore
64
1.0
To move with a smooth up and down motion, like a flag or the sea
A large curling sea wave that breaks on the shore
Compounds
- Specialized
8
3.9
A device that automatically stops electric current to prevent overloads
- Specialized
1
4.5
A way in software to stop contacting a failing service to prevent more failures
- Archaic
A small metal part in older car engines that opens and closes to send electricity to the spark plugs
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Etymology
Breaker comes from the verb break ('to crash or fall apart') plus -er, so it literally means 'something that breaks'. That is why a sea breaker is a wave that 'breaks' into foam as it reaches the shore.