| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | break·a·way |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  br k  -w |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. 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. 2. Severing or having severed alliance with another entity, policy, or attitude: a group of breakaway political reformers. | | NOUN: | 1. One that breaks away. 2. The act of breaking away, especially: a. 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. b. A burst of speed by a competitor or group of competitors in a race to break free of the pack. 3. An object designed to break away.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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