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Definition of 'break away' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (verb) break, break out, break away
move away or escape suddenly
"The horses broke from the stable"; "Three inmates broke jail"; "Nobody can break out--this prison is high security"

2. (verb) chip, chip off, come off, break away, break off
break off (a piece from a whole)
"Her tooth chipped"

3. (verb) break, break away
interrupt a continued activity
"She had broken with the traditional patterns"

4. (verb) secede, splinter, break away
withdraw from an organization or communion
"After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away"

5. (verb) scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away
flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
"If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"


Definition of 'break away' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (verb) break away
to escape or move away from
The dog broke away from its owner.; ***One runner suddenly broke away from the others.

2.  break away
to stop being part of sth
Namibia broke away from South Africa in 1991.

3.  break away
to become separate
chunks of ice breaking away from the iceberg


Translation of 'break away' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: to escape from control
The dog broke away from its owner.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: wegbreek Arabic flag Arabic: يُفلت، يفرُّ Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: вълнолом
Brazilian flag Brazilian: libertar-se Czech flag Czech: utrhnout se, vytrhnout se German flag German: ausreißen
Danish flag Danish: rive sig løs Greek flag Greek: ξεφεύγω από τον έλεγχο, δ Spanish flag Spanish: escapar(se)
Estonian flag Estonian: minema pääsema Farsi flag Farsi: فرار کردن Finnish flag Finnish: päästä vapauteen
French flag French: échapper (à) Hebrew flag Hebrew: לִבְרוֹח Hindi flag Hindi: नियंत्रण से निकल भागना
Croatian flag Croatian: otkidanje Hungarian flag Hungarian: leszakad Indonesian flag Indonesian: lepas kendali
Icelandic flag Icelandic: slíta sig lausan Italian flag Italian: scappare Japanese flag Japanese: 逃げる
Korean flag Korean: 일탈 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: ištrūkti Latvian flag Latvian: aizbēgt; izbēgt
Malay flag Malay: lepaskan diri Dutch flag Dutch: zich losrukken Norwegian flag Norwegian: rive seg løs
Polish flag Polish: uciec, wyrwać się Persian flag Persian: فرار کردن Pashto flag Pashto: تښتیدل
Portuguese flag Portuguese: libertar-se Romanian flag Romanian: a scăpa Russian flag Russian: вырваться, убежать
Slovak flag Slovak: vytrhnúť sa Slovenian flag Slovenian: zbežati Serbian flag Serbian: pobeći
Swedish flag Swedish: slita sig lös (loss) Thai flag Thai: เลิกจงรักภักดีกับ Turkish flag Turkish: kaçıp kurtulmak
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 脫逃 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: втекти, вирватися Urdu flag Urdu: قابو سے باہر ہونا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: thoát khỏi Chinese flag Chinese: 脱逃

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