Main entry: break away, break off, come off, chip, chip off
Definition: break off (a piece from a whole)
Usage: Her tooth chipped
Main entry: break, break away, break out
Definition: move away or escape suddenly
Usage: The horses broke from the stable; Three inmates broke jail; Nobody can break out--this prison is high security
Main entry: head for the hills, hightail it, escape, fly the coop, lam, break away, bunk, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail
Definition: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
Usage: If you see this man, run!; The burglars escaped before the police showed up
Main entry: break away, secede, splinter
Definition: withdraw from an organization or communion
Usage: After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away
Main entry: break, break away
Definition: interrupt a continued activity
Usage: She had broken with the traditional patterns