break away

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Definition

Verb: 1. To escape or flee suddenly and often forcefully from confinement or control. 2. To end one's association or membership with a group, organization, or system, often to become independent. 3. To detach or become detached from something larger, either physically or figuratively.

Usage Examples
  • Verb (Escape):
    • The horse broke away from its handler and galloped across the field.
    • Several prisoners managed to break away during the nighttime chaos.
  • Verb (End Association):
    • The province voted to break away and form its own independent nation.
    • She decided to break away from the traditional company structure to start her own firm.
  • Verb (Detach):
    • A large piece of ice broke away from the glacier and crashed into the sea.
    • He tried to break away a small piece of the chocolate bar to share.
Advanced Usage
  • "to break away from tradition/convention": To stop following traditional or conventional ways of doing things.
    • The designer's new collection breaks away from the conventions of formal wear.
Variants and Related Words
  • Breakaway (noun/adjective): Used to describe a group that has separated or the act of separating.
    • The breakaway faction formed its own political party. (adjective)
    • The cyclist made a decisive breakaway from the pack. (noun)
Synonyms
  • Escape, flee, bolt, run off.
  • Secede, withdraw, split off, separate.
  • Detach, come off, split, fragment.
Related Phrasal Verbs
  • Break free: Very similar to "break away," emphasizing achieving freedom from restraint.
    • The animal struggled to break free from the trap.
  • Break off: To separate a piece from something or to end a relationship or discussion abruptly.
    • He broke off a branch from the tree.
    • The two countries broke off diplomatic relations.
Related Idioms
  • Make a clean break: To end a relationship or situation completely and finally.
    • After the argument, she decided to make a clean break and move to a new city.
Verb
  1. flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
    • If you see this man, run!
    • The burglars escaped before the police showed up
  2. withdraw from an organization or communion
    • After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away
  3. interrupt a continued activity
    • She had broken with the traditional patterns
  4. break off (a piece from a whole)
    • Her tooth chipped
  5. move away or escape suddenly
    • The horses broke from the stable
    • Three inmates broke jail
    • Nobody can break out--this prison is high security

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