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Break loose   /breɪk lus/   Listen
Break loose

verb
1.
Be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise.  Synonyms: burst forth, explode.
2.
Run away from confinement.  Synonyms: escape, get away.






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"Break loose" Quotes from Famous Books



... away with her hand the blood that was streaming from her nose, and then menacing the abbess with her bloody fist, screamed out, "Write if you dare! write if you dare!" So the curses, howls, yells, screeches, all break loose again; some pitch their shoes up at the windows, others let fly the broomsticks at the old hag, and Dorothea cried out, "Let all pure and honourable virgins follow me!" Yet still a great many of the sisters gathered round ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V2 • William Mienhold

... had not come merely to punish Halfvorson, but also to let their wrath break loose, hardly knew how to begin. There was nothing for an angry man to do here. There was not a dog to chase, not a street-sweeper to pick a quarrel with, nor a fine gentleman at whom to ...
— Invisible Links • Selma Lagerlof

... here, saw the fair idea, he willed, by allowing it to be so, that the passions should unfold our reason, because he could see that present evil would produce future good. Could the helpless creature whom he called from nothing, break loose from his providence, and boldly learn to know good by practising evil without his permission? No. How could that energetic advocate for immortality argue so inconsistently? Had mankind remained for ever in the brutal ...
— A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Title: Vindication of the Rights of Women • Mary Wollstonecraft [Godwin]

... dangling about with the least breath of wind, and rattling on the trees because the enlarged base of the stem has all broken loose excepting two slender, woody threads, which still hold fast. These threads are of different degrees of strength; some break loose after a few hard gales, while others are strong enough to endure many gales, and thus they break off a few at a time. The distance to which the fruit can be carried depends on the form of the bract, the velocity of the wind, and the smoothness of the surface on which the fruit ...
— Seed Dispersal • William J. Beal

... is, Jack. These elemental giants, when they do break loose from our service, have one note of defiance amongst them; and it's ...
— We and the World, Part II. (of II.) - A Book for Boys • Juliana Horatia Ewing


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