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单词 break away
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to break away
to break away
1. transitive. [ < sense 33.] To sever or remove by breaking.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > break off
breaka1200
to break away1420
to break off1530
brit1578
twig1725
1420 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 45 A branche of þe couercle [is] y-broke away.
1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 501 The lamp that with awaking beams, Dispell'd thy gloom and broke away thy dreams.
1855 D. Costello Stories from Screen 77 Those who..broke away the bars which kept him prisoner.
2. intransitive (for reflexive of a.)
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > become detached [verb (intransitive)] > break off
to carry away1604
snap1796
to break away1860
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §11. 70 The snow..broke away from the foot and fell into the chasm.
3. intransitive. [ < sense 36.] To start away with abruptness and force; to go off abruptly; to escape by breaking from restraint. Also figurative.
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the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [verb (intransitive)] > from confinement
atburstc1000
outbreakOE
strayc1330
aventc1375
twinc1386
out-wina1425
to break away1535
disengage1647
to break bounds1816
to cut loose1828
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
fleec825
runOE
swervea1225
biwevec1275
skip1338
streekc1380
warpa1400
yerna1400
smoltc1400
stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
skirr1548
rubc1550
to make awaya1566
lope1575
scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. li. 6 The souldyers brake awaye, and fled out of the cite by night.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. iv. 1 Feare me not man, I will not breake away . View more context for this quotation
a1627 T. Middleton et al. Widdow (1652) i. i. 2 When Thieves are taken, and break away twice or thrice one after an other, ther's my gains; then goes out more Warrants to fetch'em agen.
1852 M. F. Tupper Proverb. Philos. 317 A dappled hart hath flung aside the boughs and broke away.
1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xii. 164 If people break away from the ordinary methods..they must take their chance.
4. Boxing. (See quot.)
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (intransitive)] > separate
to break away1897
break1932
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 139/1 Break away, to get away from an opponent.
1904 A. J. Newton Boxing viii. 67 So clinched, they remain..on the lookout for an opportunity to break away in the most favourable manner.
1923 L. R. Tosswill Boxing Up-to-date 58 In competitions held under the auspices of the Royal Navy and Army..the command ‘Break away’ is given by the referee the moment the boxers clinch.
5. break away Of the weather: to clear up. Perhaps Obsolete.
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1768 G. Washington Diaries I. 249 Very like to Snow but broke away abt. Sun Set.
1816 U. Brown in Maryland Hist. Mag. 11 221 This morning rains very much, about Ten o'Clock breaks away.
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break away
5. break away Of the weather: to clear up. Perhaps Obsolete.
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1768 G. Washington Diaries I. 249 Very like to Snow but broke away abt. Sun Set.
1816 U. Brown in Maryland Hist. Mag. 11 221 This morning rains very much, about Ten o'Clock breaks away.
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