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Rabid vs Breakneck - What's the difference?

rabid | breakneck |

As adjectives the difference between rabid and breakneck

is that rabid is affected with rabies while breakneck is dangerously fast; hell-for-leather.

As a noun breakneck is

a fall that breaks the neck.

rabid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Affected with rabies.
  • a rabid dog or fox
  • Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia.
  • a rabid virus
  • Furious; raging; extremely violent.
  • very extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; comparable to one with rabies.
  • a rabid socialist
    rabid Green Bay Packers fans

    Quotations

    * The rabid flight, Of winds that ruin ships. -- Chapman

    Anagrams

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    breakneck

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Dangerously fast; hell-for-leather.
  • He came running around the corner at a breakneck pace and couldn't stop in time to avoid hitting the fruit stand.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fall that breaks the neck.
  • A dangerous steep place from which one could fall.