break with sth
— phrasal verb with break uk/breɪk/us/breɪk/verb broke, broken
to intentionally not continue doing something that is normal, expected, or traditional:
We decided to break with tradition and not spend Christmas with our family.
The country's leadership is determined to break with past practices and to solve urgent economic problems.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Stop having or doing something
- abdicate
- bail out
- bandh
- butt out
- cede
- chuck sth in
- drop
- fly
- ghost
- give (sth) up
- give sb up
- give sth up as a bad job idiom
- give up on sb/sth
- give up sth
- grow
- subjugate
- take a back seat idiom
- throw (sth) up
- throw in the towel idiom 1
- towel
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