breaking from
breaking from is the present participle and gerund of break from.
Meaning of break from
Verb
break from (third-person singular simple present breaks from, present participle breaking from, simple past broke from, past participle broken from)
- To leave the cover of (a crowd, shelter, etc.).
- Burning the ground, I break from the crowd
I'm on the hunt, I'm after you1982 May 4, Duran Duran, “Hungry Like the Wolf”, in Rio
- Burning the ground, I break from the crowd
- Synonym of break with (“to cease having a positive connection with”).
- Synonyms:
- break with
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, from.
Questions about breaking from
- What is breaking from the present participle and gerund of?
- Breaking from is the present participle and gerund of break from.
Words near breaking from in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: breaking from (page history and authors); break from (page history and authors). 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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