Breakbone
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Breakbone is a noun meaning (pathology, uncountable) Breakbone fever.
Meaning
(pathology, uncountable) Breakbone fever.
More Meanings
- (US dialect, countable) A chicken's wishbone.
- Violent; rough and painful.
Example Sentences
Near-synonym: backbreaking
breakbone A chicken's wishbone; also called the breaking bone or pulleybone.
A nickname for the disease is "breakbone" because it feels like your bones are breaking.
Shampooing, as employed in Japan, is not exactly the vigorous breakbone manipulation of the Turks at the namman, and which makes one imagine that every joint in the body must have been dislocated.
Word Forms
- breakbones
Synonyms for breakbone
Depending on context, synonyms include dengue, furcula, merrythought, backbreaking.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include brain fever, camptomelia, osteo, osteochondropathy, arbovirosis, ague.
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