The physical action of breaking; the fact of being broken; breakage, fracture. Obsolete.

in transitive senses.

Breaking, breach, fracture; ruin.

An act of breaking; breakage, fracture.

Breaking or cracking, fracture.

Cracking, fissuring; a chink or crack.

The process or action of breaking suddenly and violently, as under tension.

The action or fact of crushing, battering, or bruising a person, animal, or body part with a heavy weight or blow.

The action of breaking. with reference to material things in general, and to lines, etc.; also, refraction (of light). Obsolete.

Fissuring, cracking. Obsolete.

The action of cracking or giving way.

The action of fracturing or breaking; concrete, a breakage or fracture.

The action of rending or bursting asunder; violent dissolution of continuity; forcible severance.

Now chiefly Medicine. Snapping, breaking; breaking or tearing away (esp. of portions of a mass); an instance of this. In later use: spec. = abruptio…

Breaking or rending asunder; disruption.

The fissuring or cracking of the surface; a chap or crack.

The action of chop, v.1, in various senses.

The action of breaking or fact of being broken; breakage; spec. in Surgery (the earliest use), the breaking of a bone, cartilage, etc.

An act of breaking, a breach.

The action or fact of breaking.

The action of disrupting or bursting asunder; disruption.

Breaking off, disruption.

The action of the verb in various senses. In intransitive senses.

The action or an act of fractionating.