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Definition of break from (someone or something)

: to end a relationship, connection, or agreement with (someone or something)
  • She recently broke from the organization she helped found.
  • breaking from tradition/stereotypes

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break play

  1. : to separate into parts with suddenness or violence

  2. : to cause (a bone) to separate into two or more pieces : fracture

  3. to fracture a bone of (a bodily part)

  1. : an act or action of breaking

  2. : the opening shot in a game of pool or billiards

  3. : a gap or opening caused or appearing as if caused by damage : a condition produced by or as if by breaking : gap

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someone play

  1. : some person : somebody

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something play

  1. : some indeterminate or unspecified thing

  2. : some indeterminate amount more than a specified number

  3. : a person or thing of consequence

  1. : in some degree : somewhat

  2. used as an intensive giving adverbial force to an adjective

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