"break water" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: breaks water [present, singular, third-person], breaking water [participle, present], broke water [past], broken water [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|break<,,broke,broken> water}} 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. Categories (topical): Pregnancy Related terms: breakwater Translations (to lose one's amniotic fluid): lapsivesi menee (note: 'lapsivesi' is the subject) (Finnish), perdre les eaux (French), წყლებს ღვრის (c̣q̇lebs ɣvris) (Georgian), woda odeszła [perfective, with-dative] (Polish), woda odchodzi [imperfective, with-dative] (Polish), damira (Yoruba)
    Sense id: en-break_water-en-verb-863I2MkH Disambiguation of Pregnancy: 95 5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English light verb constructions, English predicates, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 92 8 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 88 12 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 91 9 Disambiguation of English light verb constructions: 87 13 Disambiguation of English predicates: 57 43 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 86 14 Disambiguation of "to lose one's amniotic fluid": 99 1
  2. To rise up partially out of the water when swimming underwater.
    Sense id: en-break_water-en-verb-It6N2hwL

Inflected forms

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