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break one's lanceTo engage in an honorable fight.Rate it:

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break outTo escape, especially forcefully or defiantly.Rate it:

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break outTo begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition.Rate it:

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break outTo separate from a bundle.Rate it:

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break outTo bring out, use, or present.Rate it:

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break outprison escapeRate it:

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break out of your shellWhen someone is a little shy.Rate it:

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break rankTo march or charge out of the designated order in a military unit.Rate it:

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break ranksTo march or charge out of the designated order in a military unit.Rate it:

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break ranksTo publicly disagree with one's own group or organization.Rate it:

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break someone's heartTo cause a person to feel grief or sadness.Rate it:

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break the back ofTo achieve the greater part of some project.Rate it:

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break the bankTo exhaust one's financial resources.Rate it:

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break the bankTo win more money than is available to be paid.Rate it:

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break the bankTo buy something that costs to much.Rate it:

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break the buckFall below the value of one dollar per share.Rate it:

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break the cycleTo act so as to end a repeating pattern of harmful or otherwise negative behavior.Rate it:

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break the deadlockTo score the first goal or point in a competitionRate it:

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break the fourth wallTo apparently communicate with reality directly, such as when characters of literature comment on the existence of a reader.Rate it:

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break the iceTo start to get to know people, by avoiding awkwardness.Rate it:

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Break the IceTo overcome any awkward situation, to help strangers know each other, to overcome social communication difficulties all in a friendly manner, to overcome any sort of nervous situation between different peopleRate it:

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break the InternetTo cause a connection to the Internet, or the Internet itself, to malfunction.Rate it:

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break the InternetTo overwhelm a web server through organic user-driven demand, such that the server goes offline or is in danger of doing so.Rate it:

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break the InternetTo deliberately overwhelm a web server through a cyberattack such as a DDOS, such that the server goes offline or is in danger of doing so.Rate it:

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break the InternetTo do or say something ostentatious or controversial, such that the behavior causes a dramatic increase in traffic to a website or commentary on social media; to go viral.Rate it:

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break the moldTo depart from a traditional pattern; to defy convention.Rate it:

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break the moldTo make it impossible for an identical copy to be made.Rate it:

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break the SabbathTo violate the holiness or sanctity of the Sabbath by not keeping it holy.Rate it:

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break the sealWhen consuming alcohol, to urinate for the first time, which leads to needing to urinate more and more often.Rate it:

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break throughUsed other than as an idiom: see break, through.Rate it:

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break throughTo gain popularity.Rate it:

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break throughTo penetrate the defence of the opposition.Rate it:

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break upTo break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart.Rate it:

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break upOf a telephone conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection.Rate it:

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break upTo break or separate into pieces.Rate it:

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break upTo end a relationship.Rate it:

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break upTo dissolve; to part.Rate it:

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break upTo stop a fight; to separate people who are fighting.Rate it:

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break windTo flatulate; fart; to expel gases generated during digestion through the anus.Rate it:

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break withUsed other than as an idiom: see break, with.Rate it:

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break withTo cease having a positive connection with (a person, group, movement, etc).Rate it:

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break withTo divulge one's secrets, thoughts or intentions, to discuss something with somebody.Rate it:

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break your backto work extremely hardRate it:

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bugger upTo break or spoil something, or make it inoperative, useless etc.Rate it:

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burst my balloonBreak-up an assertion or a claim of success. Depracate a plan or approach. Deflate and belittle the glowing reports of a well chosen committee:Rate it:

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burst my balloonBreak-up an assertion or a claim of success. Deprecate a plan or approach. Deflate and belittle the glowing reports of a well chosen committee:Rate it:

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bust outto escape (from); break outRate it:

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ça va barderall hell will break loose!Rate it:

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carry awayTo break under sudden pressure of violent wind.Rate it:

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castra movereto begin the march, break up the camp.Rate it:

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