BREAKER Synonyms

• a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded

• someone who maintains and audits business accounts

• a person who directs and restrains

• a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine

• a designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated

• a route shorter than the usual one

• a device that terminates the flow in a pipe

• an electrical device that can interrupt the flow of electrical current when it is overloaded

• any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant

• mix together different elements

• become plastic or fluid or liquefied from heat

• equip with a fuse; provide with a fuse

• make liquid or plastic by heating

• a device for automatically interrupting an electric current

• control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit

• an event in which one thing is substituted for another

• hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure

• railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock

• a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment

• a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other

• the act of changing one thing or position for another

• change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence

• exchange or give (something) in exchange for

• lay aside, abandon, or leave for another

• make a shift in or exchange of

• cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation

• flog with or as if with a flexible rod

• reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)

• a woman employed by a bar to act as a companion to men customers

• waves breaking on the shore

• a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship

• a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to

• a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone

• waves breaking on the shore

• ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard

• look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular

• switch channels, on television

• someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job

• someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks

• a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)