break stride

verb

Meaning

To cease walking or running at the same gait, especially with the result of interrupting one's forward momentum.

Etymology / origin

No prose etymology has been added yet.

No ancestor words have been linked yet.

Related words

break one's stride(English)break(English)backstep(English)stagger(English)step short(English)put the brakes on(English)stop(English)bring up(English)

Descendant words

No descendant words have been linked yet.

Sources

DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data