TO BREAK AWAY

Definition: TO BREAK AWAY

TO BREAK AWAY

1. To disengage one's self abruptly; to come or go away against resistance. Fear me not, man; I will not break away. --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO BREAK AWAY

USS Benham (DD-397), with 720 survivors of USS Yorktown on board, closes USS Portland (CA-33) at about 1900 hrs, 4 June 1942. A report of unidentified aircraft caused Benham to break away before transferring any of the survivors to the cruiser and they remained on board her until the following morning. Note Benham's oil-stained sides. The abandoned Yorktown is in the right distance. Credit: NAVY.

Michael knew he must do something at once to break away from the spell of that beautiful witch. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

Some of the German agency executives took the re-organization as an opportunity to break away from their former employers and set up companies of their own. Hence, the present media community consists of a comparatively small number of "universal" and large firms, and a larger number of small and medium-sized companies, which do not always offer full-service packages, but have specialized in "niches" in the creative sectors, in media planning, and/or market research. (references)

Economic History

Costa Rica

A new group of investors is emerging that includes young professionals who are familiar with U.S. business practices and who seek to break away from their family businesses and start something of their own. (references)

Political Economy

Somalia

Leaders in the northeast proclaimed the formation of the Puntland state in 1998. Puntland's leader, Abdullahi Yusuf, publicly announced that he did not plan to break away from the remainder of the country, but the Puntland Administration did not participate in the Djibouti Conference or recognize the TNG that emerged from it. In July Yusuf announced his refusal to abide by the Constitution and step down. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Chinese 

�"�脫 (break away from, cast away, freeoneself from, to break out, to get rid of). (various references)

Danish

gaa i drift. (various references)

Dutch

weglopen (abscond, flow down, flow off), op drift raken, breken (break). (various references)

French

se détacher, se casser (fall to pieces), partir en dérive. (various references)

German

entlaufen (abscond, elope, eloped, run away, to elope), abrollen (go off, roll off, taxi off, uncoil, unfold, unreel, unroll, unwind), abreissen (break, disruption, part), abbrechen (abbort, abort, break, break away, break off, breakups, call off, cancel, demolish, discontinue, sever, shear off, snap off, split off, stop, strike, tear down, terminate, to abort, to break off, to cut short, to discontinue, to dismantle, to sever, to tear down, to truncate). (various references)

Greek 

κίνηση με ταυτόχρονη διάσπαση από τη σύνθεση της αμαξοστοιχίας. (various references)

Hungarian

letörik (break down, to break down, to chip, to come away), letör (break down, dampen, to break down, to chip, to pull down, to put down, to silence), elszakít (lacerate, tear, to tear, to tear away, tore, torn), elszakad (secede, to cut the painter, to go into holes, to hole, to secede, to wear into holes). (various references)

Italian

andare in fuga, andare in deriva. (various references)

Pig Latin

otay eakbray awayay

Spanish

escaparse (abscond, bilk, break away, break out, escape, flee, get away, get out, leak, leak out, make tracks, run away, sling one's hook, take flight, take to one's heels, wriggle, wriggle out). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: breakaway.

-3 letters: takeaway, tearaway.

-4 letters: areaway.

-5 letters: abater, abator, aortae, aweary, bakery, baryta, baryte, betray, bewray, boater, borate, bowery, bowyer, bywork, kabaya, karate, rabato, rebato, towery, tweaky, watery.

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