break away
— phrasal verb with break uk/breɪk/us/breɪk/verb broke, broken
(ESCAPE)
to leave or to escape from someone who is holding you:
He grabbed her, but she managed to break away.
figurative One or two of the tourists broke away from the tour group.
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Running away and escaping
- abscond
- back away
- back off
- bail out
- be at large idiom
- be on the run idiom
- fugitive
- gaolbreak
- getaway
- go/be run to ground idiom
- heel
- jailbreak
- leg
- loose
- shake sb/sth off
- shoot through
- skedaddle
- slip
- stand clear
- throw
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(NOT AGREE)
to stop being part of a group because you begin to disagree with the people in the group:
Some members of the party broke away to form a rival party.
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Causing something to end
- abandon
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- bitter
- draw
- lay
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- leave it at that idiom
- leave off (sth/doing sth)
- let sb be idiom
- lift
- raise
- stone-dead
- the curtain falls on sth idiom
- to the bitter end idiom
- top sth off
- walk
- walk away
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