What does breaking away mean?

breaking away means "the act of breaking away or withdrawing from". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for breaking away?

Close synonyms include breakaway. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is breaking away a common word?

breaking away is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

breaking away — meaning, pronunciation and 2 definitions

noun

2 sensesA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
the act of breaking away or withdrawing from
“there was a breakaway by the discontented members”
“a breaking away from family and neighborhood”
Synonymsbreakaway
Broadersecession
2.
departing hastily
Broaderdeparture

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What does breaking away mean?: breaking away means "the act of breaking away or withdrawing from". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

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