break with

break with
To cease having a positive connection with (a person, group, movement, etc).

His bones were broken with a club.


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  • break with — (someone/something) to end a friendly relationship with a person or organization. In Nadia s version of events, she was the one to break with Howard. Barnhart broke with other tobacco companies when he announced that he was settling several major …   New idioms dictionary

  • break with — ► break with 1) quarrel with. 2) go against (a custom or tradition). Main Entry: ↑break …   English terms dictionary

  • break with — index defect, disaccord, disagree, estrange, rebel, renounce, split Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton …   Law dictionary

  • break with — [v] part ways ditch, drop, jilt, reject, renounce, separate; concepts 21,30,180 …   New thesaurus

  • break with — verb end a relationship (Freq. 3) China broke with Russia • Hypernyms: ↑separate, ↑part, ↑split up, ↑split, ↑break, ↑break up • Verb Frames …   Useful english dictionary

  • break with — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms break with : present tense I/you/we/they break with he/she/it breaks with present participle breaking with past tense broke with past participle broken with 1) break with someone/something to leave a group of… …   English dictionary

  • break with — phr verb Break with is used with these nouns as the object: ↑convention, ↑tradition …   Collocations dictionary

  • break with someone — break with (someone/something) to end a friendly relationship with a person or organization. In Nadia s version of events, she was the one to break with Howard. Barnhart broke with other tobacco companies when he announced that he was settling… …   New idioms dictionary

  • break with something — break with (someone/something) to end a friendly relationship with a person or organization. In Nadia s version of events, she was the one to break with Howard. Barnhart broke with other tobacco companies when he announced that he was settling… …   New idioms dictionary

  • break with something — ˈbreak with sth derived to end a connection with sth • to break with tradition/old habits/the past • He broke with the party on the issue of Europe. Main entry: ↑breakderived …   Useful english dictionary

  • break with precedent — or depart from precedent to change the way in which things have traditionally been done The club has broken with precedent and elected a female president …   English dictionary

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