| VERB | motion | break away, break, break out | move away or escape suddenly |
|---|---|---|---|
| contact | break away, chip, chip off, come off, break off | break off (a piece from a whole) | |
| social | break away, break | interrupt a continued activity | |
| social | break away, secede, splinter | withdraw from an organization or communion | |
| motion | break away, scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop | flee |
| Meaning | Move away or escape suddenly. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | break, break out | |
| Broader | escape, get away, break loose | run away from confinement |
| Similar to | break | make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing |
| Meaning | break off (a piece from a whole). | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP | |
| Synonyms | chip, chip off, come off, break off | |
| Narrower | exfoliate | come off in a very thin piece |
| peel off, peel, flake off, flake | come off in flakes or thin small pieces | |
| Broader | separate, divide, part | come apart |
| See also | break | go to pieces |
| Spanish | astillarse, astillar, picar, resquebrajar | |
| Catalan | asclar, esquerdar, esquerdissar, estellar, picolar | |
| Meaning | interrupt a continued activity. | |
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| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonym | break | |
| Broader | separate, part, split up, split, break, break up | discontinue an association / association / association or relation |
| Spanish | abandonar, romper con | |
| Catalan | abandonar, rompre, tallar, trencar | |
| Meaning | Withdraw from an organization or communion. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | secede, splinter | |
| Broader | separate, part, split up, split, break, break up | discontinue an association / association / association or relation |
| Spanish | independizarse | |
| Nouns | breakaway | the act of breaking away or withdrawing from |
| Meaning | flee; take to one's heels; cut and run. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop | |
| Narrower | flee, fly, take flight | run away quickly |
| skedaddle | run away, as if in a panic | |
| Broader | leave, go forth, go away | go away from a place |
| Spanish | correr, escapar, evadir, huir | |
| Catalan | escapar, escapolir-se, evadir, fugir | |
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