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单词 break and enter
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break and enter
break and enter n. chiefly Canadian the crime of entering a property by force in order to commit burglary; (also) an instance of this; cf. breaking and entering at breaking n. 1c.
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1937 Brandon (Manitoba) Sun 1 Feb. 1/5 (heading) Robber got very small haul in break and enter over week-end.
1977 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 29 Nov. An appeal by the accused against his conviction on a charge of four counts of break and enter.
1991 L. Shorten Without Reserve v. 127 The break-and-enter wasn't my first charge, eh. My first charge, I had attempted assault with a deadly weapon.
2005 Metro (Toronto) 14 Nov. 27/4 Loren starts using..crystal meth and taking part in break and enters.
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to break and enter
a. To enter (a house, an enclosed place, etc.) by breaking part of its circuit; to enter by force or violence. Cf. to break open at sense 17b, or 42a; and to break up 10 at Phrasal verbs. (See housebreaker n.) In modern use, only in to break and enter: see breaking n. 1c.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come into [verb (transitive)] > violently
break851
foundc1420
enter1567
burst1570
intrude1594
raid1875
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [verb (transitive)] > enter by force
break851
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [verb (intransitive)] > enter illegally
to break and enter1797
851 Anglo-Saxon Chron. [The Danes] bræcon Contwara burg and Lundenburg.
a1123 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1102 Þeofas..breokan þa minstre of Burh.
c1305 Jud. Iscariot 73 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 109 Iudas brac þe ȝard anon.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxi. 383 [Þou] by-glosedest hem and bygyledest hem and my gardyn breke.
1483 Cath. Angl. 42 To Breke garth, desepire.
1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 59 Preamble Evyll disposed persones..intendyng..to have broken the hous of your seid Subget.
1533–4 in J. Raine Depositions Courts Durham (1845) 49 The said Dicson did break the churche of West Awkelande.
c1677 A. Marvell Acct. Growth Popery 29 Clauses most severe..one for breaking all Houses whatsoever on suspicion of any such Pamphlet.
1745 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XII. 69 Shall George Whitfield be charged with felony, because John Wesley broke a house?
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 209 Every unwarrantable entry on another's soil the law entitles a trespass by breaking his close.
1797 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. I. Bb3/3 To break and enter a shop..is not burglary, but only larceny.
1810 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 2) II. xxi. 841 Judgment was arrested in trespass for breaking and entering a free fishery.
1959 A. Sillitoe Loneliness of Long-distance Runner 11 There's a shop to break and enter.
1961 J. Maclaren-Ross Doomsday Bk. i. iv. 56 He broke-and-entered through a back window.
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