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break loose

break loose verb: to escape; to free oneself.

Verb

break loose (third-person singular simple present breaks loose, present participle breaking loose, simple past broke loose, past participle broken loose)

  1. To escape; to free oneself.
    • They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 9
    • On the Lincolnshire side of the Humber, the Pier Station at New Holland was put out of action when the ferry boat plying to and from Hull broke loose from its moorings.1953 May, “British Railways and the January Floods”, in Railway Magazine, page 301

break loose meaning in Malayalam

break loose in Malayalam

get away, escape, make one's escape
തടങ്കൽ ഭേദിച്ചു പുറത്തു കടക്കുക, ഓടിപ്പോകുക, രക്ഷപ്പെട്ടോടിക്കളയുക, കെട്ടുപൊട്ടിച്ചോടുക, ഓടിക്കളയുക, രക്ഷപ്പെടുക

Forms of break loose

third-person singular presentbreaks loose
present participlebreaking loose
pastbroke loose
past participlebroken loose

Origin of break loose

From Middle English breken los, breken lous, breken lowse, equivalent to break + loose.

Questions about break loose

What does break loose mean?
Break loose means to escape; to free oneself.
What is break loose in Malayalam?
Break loose in Malayalam is തടങ്കൽ ഭേദിച്ചു പുറത്തു കടക്കുക, ഓടിപ്പോകുക, രക്ഷപ്പെട്ടോടിക്കളയുക. See Break loose meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is break loose?
Break loose is a verb.
What is the past tense of break loose?
The past tense of break loose is broke loose.

Words near break loose in the dictionary

  1. break it
  2. break it down
  3. break it to
  4. break junction
  5. break junctions
  6. break loose
  7. break luck
  8. break movie
  9. break movies
  10. break new ground
  11. break no squares

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Adapted from Wiktionary: break loose (page history and authors); break loose (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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