BREAK Flashcards
-To open and start using or doing something
-To escape from prison
-To suddenly begin to have a rash, red marks or sweat appear on your skin
-Something dangerous or unpleasant suddenly starts
BREAK OUT (OF SMTH)
(break out a champagne)
to stop working or not be successful or destroy / To be very upset, unable to control one’s feelings / To separate in smaller parts / To give away / To render or become weak
BREAK DOWN
-To train a person to do a new job and raise their level of experience, to train an animal to behave in an obedient way
-To use something to make it not as new and more comfortable
-To force entry into something, often a building
BREAK IN
-to intrude upon something
-to interrupt someone’s conversation
-to burst into a place and violate some one’s privacy
BREAK IN ON (SB/SMTH)
(BREAK INTO also means to INTERRUPT - but with an urgency/emotion)
- To leave or to escape from someone who is holding you:
- To succeed in freeing yourself from something or someone that restricts you or controls you:
- To move rapidly away from or ahead of a group:
- To stop being part of a group because you begin to disagree with the people in the group:
- To end a relationship or connection:
BREAK AWAY FROM
to force yourself through something that is holding you back / to go higher than a particular level:
BREAK THROUGH
-To suddenly begin to do something
-To begin working in a new business or a new area
-To start to spend money that you did not want to spend
-To interrupt someone when they are talking or thinking
BREAK INTO (SMTH)
to intentionally not continue doing something that is traditional / to leave a group of people
BREAK WITH (SB/SMTH)