Term: breaking off: an instance of sudden interruption
Broader: break: an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Unrelated: horse botfly: parasitic chiefly on horses
Broader: break: an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Unrelated: sigmoidectomy: surgical removal of part or all of the sigmoid colon (usually to remove a malignant tumor)
Broader: break: an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Unrelated: rh incompatibility: incompatibility of Rh blood types; a transfusion of Rh-positive blood given to a Rh-negative person (or vice versa) can result in hemolysis and anemia
Broader: break: an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Unrelated: prakrit: any of the vernacular Indic languages of north and central India (as distinguished from Sanskrit) recorded from the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD
Broader: break: an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Unrelated: checkerbloom: perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of western North America that is also cultivated
Broader: break: an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Unrelated: sprit: a light spar that crosses a fore-and-aft sail diagonally
Broader: break: an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Unrelated: polyporus tenuiculus: a fungus with a whitish kidney-shaped cap and elongated pores; causes white rot in dead hardwoods
Broader: break: an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Unrelated: almandite: a deep red garnet consisting of iron aluminum silicate
Broader: break: an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Unrelated: meditation: continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature
Broader: break: an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Unrelated: commons: a pasture subject to common use