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unbreaking

unbreaking is the present participle and gerund of unbreak.

Meaning of unbreak

Verb

unbreak (third-person singular simple present unbreaks, present participle unbreaking, simple past unbroke, past participle unbroken)

  1. (transitive) To do the inverse or opposite of breaking: to mend, restore, heal, or fix; to make no longer broken.

Adjective

unbreaking (comparative more unbreaking, superlative most unbreaking)

  1. That does not break; unbreakable or unbroken.
    • Their sorry tragedy is cleared away from the universe, and at the end comes in that strange consciousness of the unbreaking perpetual stream of life which makes every tragedy bearable.1869, Historical Sketches of the Reign of George Second
    • The river snaked through the forest, and they travelled on hour after hour, through an unbreaking monotony of green.2014, William King, Ocean of Fear: Book Six of the Kormak Saga

Forms of unbreaking

comparativemore unbreaking
superlativemost unbreaking

Origin of unbreaking

From unbreak + -ing.

From un- + breaking.

Questions about unbreaking

What does unbreaking mean?
Unbreaking means that does not break; unbreakable or unbroken.
What is unbreaking the present participle and gerund of?
Unbreaking is the present participle and gerund of unbreak.
What part of speech is unbreaking?
Unbreaking is an adjective.

Words near unbreaking in the dictionary

  1. unbreakable
  2. unbreakableness
  3. unbreakables
  4. unbreakably
  5. unbreakfasted
  6. unbreaking
  7. unbreaks
  8. unbreast
  9. unbreasted
  10. unbreasting
  11. unbreasts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unbreaking (page history and authors); unbreak (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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