Breakaway

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  • adjective. Designed to break, bend, or fall apart easily upon impact, especially to create an illusion, as with a theater prop, or for safety, as with a highway sign or barrier.
  • adjective. Severing or having severed alliance with another entity, policy, or attitude.
  • noun. One that breaks away.
  • noun. The act of breaking away, especially.
  • noun. An offensive play in a team sport such as ice hockey in which a player with the ball or puck advances ahead of the defenders toward the goal.
  • noun. A burst of speed by a competitor or group of competitors in a race to break free of the pack.
  • noun. An object designed to break away.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An animal which breaks away from a herd or flock.
  • noun. A panic rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or other animals at the sight or smell of water; a stampede.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels (especially at the smell or the sight of water); a stampede.
  • noun. An animal that breaks away from a herd.
  • noun. an object designed to break off or shatter under impact, as a safety measure.
  • noun. the sudden emergence of one or more players or contestants from a clustered group, rushing toward a goal, as bicyclists in a race, or baketball players after a rebound has been caught.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Having broken away from a larger unit.
  • adjective. Capable of breaking off without damaging the larger structure.
  • noun. A group of riders which has gone ahead of the peloton.
  • noun. A situation in the game where one or more players of a team attack towards the goal of the other team without having any defenders in front of them.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude
  • noun. the act of breaking away or withdrawing from
  • verb. flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
  • verb. withdraw from an organization or communion
  • verb. interrupt a continued activity
  • verb. break off (a piece from a whole)
  • verb. move away or escape suddenly
  • Word Usage
    "“But because yours is the—” The word breakaway occurred to him, but he discarded it. “—newer nation, that would suggest that any uniting of the two would favor Tal’Aura’s government.”"
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