BREAKING AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breaking away mean? 

• BREAKING AWAY (noun)
  The noun BREAKING AWAY has 2 senses:

1. the act of breaking away or withdrawing from

2. departing hastily

  Familiarity information: BREAKING AWAY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREAKING AWAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of breaking away or withdrawing from

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

breakaway; breaking away

Context example:

a breaking away from family and neighborhood

Hypernyms ("breaking away" is a kind of...):

secession; withdrawal (formal separation from an alliance or federation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Departing hastily

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("breaking away" is a kind of...):

departure; going; going away; leaving (the act of departing)

 Context examples 

With all the serious things you have to think about, you could be looking forward to breaking away for a few days of rest.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Add to this that Gray, the new man, had his face tied up in a bandage for a cut he had got in breaking away from the mutineers and that poor old Tom Redruth, still unburied, lay along the wall, stiff and stark, under the Union Jack.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

‘Until you tell me who it is that has been living in that cottage, and who it is to whom you have given that photograph, there can never be any confidence between us,’ said I, and breaking away from her, I left the house.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you were born at the end of January and breaking away from a job to start a business, this won’t apply to you, as you used Uranus in the best possible way.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)