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broken stride

broken stride is the past participle of break stride.

Meaning of break stride

Verb

break stride (third-person singular simple present breaks stride, present participle breaking stride, simple past broke stride, past participle broken stride)

  1. To cease walking or running at the same gait, especially with the result of interrupting one's forward momentum.
    • Ain't nothin' gonna break my stride / Nobody gonna slow me down / Oh no, I got to keep on moving1983, Matthew Wilder, Greg Prestopino, “Break My Stride”, in I Don't Speak the Language

Questions about broken stride

What is broken stride the past participle of?
Broken stride is the past participle of break stride.

Words near broken stride in the dictionary

  1. broken someone's balls
  2. broken someone's face
  3. broken someone's heart
  4. broken source
  5. broken squelch
  6. broken stride
  7. broken tail
  8. broken telephone
  9. broken the back of
  10. broken the bank
  11. broken the cycle

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