BREAK WITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does break with mean? 

• BREAK WITH (verb)
  The verb BREAK WITH has 1 sense:

1. end a relationship

  Familiarity information: BREAK WITH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREAK WITH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

End a relationship

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

China broke with Russia

Hypernyms (to "break with" is one way to...):

break; break up; part; separate; split; split up (discontinue an association or relation; go different ways)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

So, dear Aquarius, the other possible outcome to this new moon will be to cause the break with the past.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

These offer a break with the peace of mind that the patient is being taken care of.

(Alzheimer's Caregivers, NIH: National Institute on Aging)

She closed with this offer, resolving to break with me entirely, and wrote the next day to tell me that we never were to meet again.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Miss Shepherd being the one pervading theme and vision of my life, how do I ever come to break with her?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As soon as he got home, Utterson sat down and wrote to Jekyll, complaining of his exclusion from the house, and asking the cause of this unhappy break with Lanyon; and the next day brought him a long answer, often very pathetically worded, and sometimes darkly mysterious in drift.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Uranus may mark a time when you break with a past situation that you have been unhappy in, and you would do it in a dramatic way.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

What! actually resolve to break with him entirely!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)