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broken water

broken water is the past participle of break water.

Meaning of break water

Verb

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

  1. To lose one's amniotic fluid a.k.a. water, usually during the last phases of pregnancy.
  2. To rise up partially out of the water when swimming underwater.

Questions about broken water

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

Words near broken water in the dictionary

  1. broken upon the wheel
  2. broken vertical bar
  3. broken vertical bars
  4. broken vessel
  5. broken vessels
  6. broken water
  7. broken wedlock
  8. broken wind
  9. broken window
  10. broken window theory
  11. broken windows

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Adapted from Wiktionary: broken water (page history and authors); break water (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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