Break Away

Definition: Break Away

Break Away

Verb

1. Break off; of a piece from a whole; "Her tooth chipped".

2. Move away or escape suddenly; "The horses broke from the stable"; "Three inmates broke jail".

3. Interrupt a continued activity; "She had broken with the traditional patterns".

4. Withdraw from an organization or communion.

5. Escape or flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Break Away

Avoidance

Beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate, cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape; go away; (depart); abandon; reject.

Escape

Elude; make off; (avoid); march off; (go away); give one the slip; slip through the hands, slip through the fingers; slip the collar, wriggle out of prison, break out, break loose, break loose from prison; break away, slip away, get away; find vent, find a hole to creep out of.

Crosswords: Break Away

Oh, why can't we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills? (Monkey Business; writing credit: Will B. Johnstone; S.J. Perelman)

It's gonna hurt me but I'll break away from you (How Much I Feel; performing artist: Ambrosia)

I should break away (Back In My Arms Again; performing artist: The Supremes)

Break Away (1927)

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Books

• Break Away (reference)

• Break Away (Couples, No 35) (reference)

• Break away from the greatest cons (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Break Away Angel (reference)

• Move It Like This / Break Away / Who Let the Dogs [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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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.

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Health

Benign tumors do not spread to or invade other parts of the body. Cancer cells, by contrast, break away from the primary tumor and spread, or metastasize, to other parts of the body through the bloodstream or lymphatic system. (references)

During apoptosis, bubbles or "blebs" form in the outer cell membrane, and membrane-enclosed fragments of the cell may break away. The cell nucleus also condenses and fragments, and polyribosomes (the cellular machinery for synthesizing proteins) break up. In most cells, enzymes cut DNA into unequal pieces. (references)

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

Zambia

Most notable among the break away parties is the newly-formed Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) which is a coalition of many of the expelled MMD members-in parliament and cabinet-who opposed the third term and constitutional amendment. (references)

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)

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Expressions using "break away": break away curve ♦ break away from ♦ To break away. Additional references.

Albanian

ua mbath (abscond, bugger off, buzz off, skedaddle), nisem para se të jepet sinjali, ik befas (fly off, light out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فر (abscond, bolt, decamp, elope, escape, flee, flight, fly, get away, get free, get off, run away, run off, slope, take flight, take to one's heels), ‏هجر (cast aside, dereliction, desert, desertion, disuse, drop out, emigratory, expel, expose, flee, forsake, immigrate, jettison, leave, neglect, quit, relinquish, renounce, scrap, skive, strand, surrender, throw, waive, weigh anchor), ‏قاطع (boycott, categorical, chip, conclusive, decisive, definite, disruption, disturb, dogmatic, edgy, final, have no truck with, incisive, interrupt, keen, partition, peremptory, positive, sharp, unqualified), ‏إنفصل (become airborne, break up, break with, dissociate, dissociate oneself from, estrange, segment, separate, sever, split up, sunder, tear oneself away), ‏إنقطع عن (come off smth.). (various references)

Bulgarian 

откъсвам се (calve, fly off the handle, prescind, pull ahead, pull away, tear oneself away), откъсвам (break off, dissociate, island, pick off, prescind, pull, pull off, rend, rip off, tear away, tear off, tear out, tweak, uproot, win away), изоставам (cast off, drag, fall behind, fall out, lag, lose, pack in, run behind, tail away, tail off). (various references)

Chinese 

脫離 (separate). (various references)

Czech

utrhnout se (break loose, come off), uniknout (abscond, break, elude, evade, get away, get off), odtrhnout se (secede, straggle), odštìpit se (hive off). (various references)

Danish

kavitationskurve (break away curve, cavitation curve, disruption of flow curve), gaa i drift (to break away). (various references)

Dutch

breken (break), weglopen (abscond, flow down, flow off), op drift raken (to break away), afvalkromme (break away curve, cavitation curve, disruption of flow curve). (various references)

Finnish

riuhtaista itsensä irti (break loose), kiskaista itsensä irti (wrench oneself away). (various references)

French

se séparer (break), se détacher (to break away), s'abstenir, rompre ses amarres, partir � la dérive. (various references)

German

zu früh starten, weglaufen (run away, to run away), sich trennen (break loose, disengage, diverge, divide, get loose, part, separate, split off, split up, to divide, undock), sich lossagen (renounce, secede), sich losreißen (break free, break loose, get loose, tear oneself away), sich absetzen (be deposited, clear out, collect, contrast, defect, hive off, pull ahead, stand out, take off), fehlstarten, ausreißen (abscond, bolt, come away, come off, come out, eradicate, pluck, pull out, run away, tear, tear out, weed out, yank out), ausbrechen (blow out, blow up, break loose, break off, break out, break up, bring up, burst, burst out, bust, bust out, come away, come on, erupt, escape, explode, get loose, heave up, swerve, throw up, to break out, to erupt, vomit), abfallen (apostatize, be left over, climb down, decline, defect, drop away, drop off, fall, fall away, fall off, incline, secede, sink away, slope away, slope down, to apostatize, to fall off, to secede), abbrechen (abbort, abort, break, break off, breakups, call off, cancel, demolish, discontinue, sever, shear off, snap off, split off, stop, strike, tear down, terminate, to abort, to break away, to break off, to cut short, to discontinue, to dismantle, to sever, to tear down, to truncate). (various references)

Greek 

δραπετεύω (abscond, escape, get away, run away, slink, steal). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפרוץ מן-, לז� ק לפ� י �"זמן, ל�"ת� תק (cut off). (various references)

Hungarian

elszakad valamitõl. (various references)

Italian

fare una falsa partenza. (various references)

Manx

scarrey (alienate, alienation, break off, break up, come away, detach, detachment; spread, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjunction, dissociate, dissociation, distinguish, disunion, disunite, diverge, divergence, divide, divorce, draw apart; spacing, insulation, leaving, part, part with, parting, relinquish, schism, secede, secession, segment, segregate, segregation, separate, separating, separation, sever, severance, shut off, slough, split up, start, sunder). (various references)

Pig Latin

eakbray awayay

Portuguese

fugir (abscond, bolt, bunk, decamp, disject, disperse, dodge, elope, elude, escape, flee, fleet, get away, get away with, lam, make off, retreat, run, run away, scoot, up and away). (various references)

Romanian

se detaşa (come away, come off, detach oneself, separate), rupe rândurile (break the ranks), evada (break out, escape, flee, get away, make one's escape, make one's getaway), desprinde (break off, detach, disengage, take out), deschide (broach, commence, crack, cut, indict, lead, lead off, let in, open, open up, start, uncork, unfasten, unfold, unlock, unseal, unstop), croi un drum. (various references)

Russian 

отрываться, отрывать (disinter, pick off, rend, tear, tear away), поспешно уйти. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

umaći (lose, slip away), oteti se (break loose). (various references)

Spanish

separarse (break, break off, break up, come asunder, come away, disjoin, divide, drop off, drop out, fly off, part, secede, separate, split), salir del pelotón, evadirse (abscond, break out, escape, get away, hedge, run away, weave), escaparse (abscond, bilk, 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), escapar (drive hard, elope, escape, flee, get away, get off, let off, ride hard, run away, take flight), desprenderse (become detached, break off, come away, come off, drop off, drop out, fall away, fall off, fall out, fly off), despegarse. (various references)

Swedish

utträda (leave, secede, withdraw), slita sig lös. (various references)

Turkish

kurtulmak (be freed, be recovered from, be rid of, be saved, break loose, break oneself of a habit, defecate, discard, disengage, dispose of, ditch, elude, escape, evade, extricate oneself, free oneself, get away, get clear of, get out of, get rid of, make a bonfire of, make away with, pull through, put off, quit oneself, recover, shake off, smooth away, throw off), kirişi kırmak, kaçmak (abscond, blow, bolt, break, bunk, clear off, decamp, defect, desert, elope, escape, fade, flee, fly, fly away, get away, go by, hook it, ladder, Lam, lapse, leg it, light out, make a bolt for it, make off, nip off, pack up, pull out, retreat, run, run away, run off, scamper away, scoot, scuttle, skip, skip it, skip out, slip, slip off, slope off, take flight, travel, walk off), ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break up, break with, check out, come unstuck, cut loose, decamp, defect, depart, desert, deviate, disunite, divaricate, diverge, divide, divorce, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, drop out, fork, furcate, get clear of, get off, give up, graduate, hive off, lead away from, leave, mosey, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull away, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, secede, segregate, separate, sever, splinter off, split, split off, split up, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, unstuck, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of, withdraw). (various references)

Ukrainian

утікати (bolt), розривати (break, denounce, develop, disrupt, divorce, outbreak, rupture, tear up), відривати (avulse, disinter, pull away, tear away, tear off). (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: breakaway.

-2 letters: areaway.

-3 letters: aweary, bakery, bewray, kabaya.

-4 letters: abaka, awake, aware, baker, barky, barye, beaky, brake, braky, break, kabar, kebar, waker, weary, wreak, yerba.

-5 letters: abye, aery, arak, area, away, awry, bake, bare, bark, beak, bear, brae, braw, bray, brew, byre, eyra, kbar, kerb, kyar, rake, raya, ryke, wake, ware, wark, wary, weak, wear, weka.

+1 letter: breakaways, breaksaway.