BREAK Flashcards

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-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

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BREAK OUT (OF SMTH)

(break out a champagne)

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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

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BREAK DOWN

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-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

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BREAK IN

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4
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-to intrude upon something
-to interrupt someone’s conversation
-to burst into a place and violate some one’s privacy

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BREAK IN ON (SB/SMTH)

(BREAK INTO also means to INTERRUPT - but with an urgency/emotion)

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5
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  • 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:
A

BREAK AWAY FROM

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6
Q

to force yourself through something that is holding you back / to go higher than a particular level:

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BREAK THROUGH

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7
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-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

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BREAK INTO (SMTH)

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8
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to intentionally not continue doing something that is traditional / to leave a group of people

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BREAK WITH (SB/SMTH)

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