break_away
1. [ verb ] move away or escape suddenly
Synonyms: break break_out
Examples:

"The horses broke from the stable" "Three inmates broke jail" "Nobody can break out--this prison is high security"

Related terms: escape break
2. [ verb ] break off; of a piece from a whole
Synonyms: chip break_off come_off chip_off
Examples:

"Her tooth chipped"

Related terms: separate peel_off exfoliate bit
3. [ verb ] withdraw from an organization or communion
Synonyms: secede splinter
Examples:

"After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away"

Related terms: separate breakaway
4. [ verb ] interrupt a continued activity
Synonyms: break
Examples:

"She had broken with the traditional patterns"

Related terms: separate
5. [ verb ] divide into pieces, as by bending or cutting
Synonyms: break
Examples:

"break the loaf of bread" "break the crackers"

Related terms: divide separate pause
6. [ verb ] flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
Synonyms: run run_away lam head_for_the_hills hightail_it fly_the_coop bunk escape turn_tail take_to_the_woods scarper
Examples:

"If you see this man, run!" "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"

Related terms: leave flee skedaddle fugitive
Similar spelling:   breakaway
  Breakey