BREAK Flashcards
- To begin happening
- Something very unpleasant starts suddenly
- To open and start using it
- To suddenly have a rash or red marks and sweat appear on your skin
- To escape from prison
6.To do something different from what you do (of smth)
BREAK OUT (OF SMTH)
(break out a champagne)
- To stop working
- To cause to collapse or destroy
- To fail because of problems or disagreement and not be successful (a relationship)
- To be very upset, unable to control one’s feelings
- To separate in smaller parts
- To lose or cause (sb) to lose strength/ability to resist or fight
- To become weaker
his opponent speech broke down after the strong arguments he gave
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 (physically)
- 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 separate from a large group because you begin to disagree with them
- To end a relationship or connection
BREAK AWAY FROM
He grabbed her, but she managed to break away
- to force yourself through something that is holding you back
- to go higher than a particular level
- to find a way of dealing with a problem or situation thst limits what you can do
BREAK THROUGH
Protesters broke through the barriers
-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 or stop supporting someone because you disagree with them
BREAK WITH (SB/SMTH)
