break away

Verb

• flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
  • If you see this man, run!
    
  • The burglars escaped before the police showed up
    

• withdraw from an organization or communion
  • After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away
    

• interrupt a continued activity
  • She had broken with the traditional patterns
    

• break off (a piece from a whole)
  • Her tooth chipped
    

• move away or escape suddenly
  • The horses broke from the stable
    
  • Three inmates broke jail
    
  • Nobody can break out--this prison is high security
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  secede , splinter , break , chip , chip off , come off , break off , break out