Break+up+or+away

  • 81break away — 1. Escape (against resistance), break loose. 2. Be scattered, be dissipated …

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  • 82break ranks — 1) if a member of a group breaks ranks, they disagree publicly with the rest of the group Toricelli angered fellow Democrats by breaking ranks with the leadership. 2) if soldiers or police officers break ranks, they stop standing in lines and… …

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  • 83away — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adv. absent, elsewhere, far off, gone. See distance, absence. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Removed] Syn. absent, not present, gone, distant, at a distance, not here, elsewhere, far afield, at arm s length …

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  • 84break away — run away, escape; disconnect, cut off ties, isolate oneself …

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  • 85break free — phrasal to get away by overcoming restraints or constraints …

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  • 86break north — vb American to depart, leave. A vogue term in black street slang of the 1990s, the origin of the term is obscure but may evoke the escape of a slave from the southern states. A variety of euphemisms (like its contemporaries bail, book, jam and… …

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  • 87break jail — escape from prison, run away from jail …

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  • 88break down — fail, not operate, out of order    If that copier breaks down again I m going to give it away …

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  • 89To break away — Break Break (br[=a]k), v. i. 1. To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder. [1913 Webster] 2. To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed… …

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  • 90To break down — Break Break (br[=a]k), v. i. 1. To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder. [1913 Webster] 2. To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed… …

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