break through
phrasal verbbreak through
- to make new and important discoveries
- Scientists think they are beginning to break through in the fight against cancer.
break through | break through something
- to make a way through something using force
- Demonstrators broke through the police cordon.
- There was a police cordon around the site but the demonstrators still broke through.
- (of the sun or moon) to appear from behind clouds
- The sun broke through at last in the afternoon.
- At last the moon broke through the clouds and they could see their way.
break through something
- to succeed in dealing with an attitude that somebody has and the difficulties it creates synonym overcome
- He had finally managed to break through her reserve.