breakthrough
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Is breakthrough a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (immunology) Involving the contraction of a disease by a person with a decreased susceptibility, such as a person who has been vaccinated to help prevent that disease.Examples: "Breakthrough infections (urine infections that develop in children on antibiotics) can occasionally occur, and if they do, different preventative antibiotics can be given or sometimes surgery to fix the leaky valve can be undertaken."; "There is also growing evidence that while Omicron may cause many breakthrough cases among previously infected or previously vaccinated populations, the morbidity and mortality associated with the disease among them will be lower, they added."not-comparable
noun (English)
1. (military) An advance through and past enemy lines.
2. (sports) The penetration of the opposition's defence.Examples: "But with the lively Dos Santos pulling the strings behind strikers Pavlyuchenko and Defoe, Spurs controlled the first half without finding the breakthrough their dominance deserved."
3. (construction) The penetration of a separating wall or the remaining distance to an adjacent hollow (a crosscut in mining) or between two parts of a tunnel build from both ends; knockthrough.
4. (medicine, sometimes attributive) The emergence or one or more symptoms of a condition despite medication or other medical treatment.Examples: "She was on two antiepileptics for five years but then had a breakthrough seizure."; "He was managing his discomfort with common painkillers, but one morning he had breakthrough pain causing him to miss work."attributivesometimes
Definition source: Wiktionary