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Definition of Break loose
1. Verb. Be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise. "His anger exploded"
2. Verb. Run away from confinement. "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"
Specialized synonyms: Break, Break Away, Break Out, Escape From, Shake, Shake Off, Throw Off, Bilk, Elude, Evade, Slip, Run Away, Escape, Get Away
Generic synonyms: Flee, Fly, Take Flight
Derivative terms: Escape, Escape, Escapee, Getaway
Definition of Break loose
1. Verb. to escape, to free oneself ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Break Loose
Literary usage of Break loose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... Incredible Suffering — The Victim's Tragic Efforts to break loose — Suspended
in Mid-air — Indescribable Agonies — Lips that Never Murmur — Dressing the ..."
2. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Joseph Torrey (1849)
"On the other hand, whoever in the primitive times would be a Christian, must
break loose from many of his hitherto favorite inclinations, and be ready to ..."
3. The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson ... Captain by Thomas Hutchinson, Peter Orlando Hutchinson (1884)
"... forgot that her Colony was no longer willing to continue in leading-strings,
and never imagined that she was strong enough to break loose from them. ..."
4. A History of England by James Franck Bright (1889)
"No sooner were T . , his first ebullitions of anger over, than he proceeded to
to break loose take steps for destroying it. Messengers were at once *tam lt- ..."
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