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Break in   /breɪk ɪn/   Listen
Break in

verb
1.
Enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act.  Synonym: break.  "They broke into my car and stole my radio!" , "Who broke into my account last night?"
2.
Break into a conversation.  Synonyms: barge in, butt in, chime in, chisel in, cut in, put in.
3.
Start in a certain activity, enterprise, or role.
4.
Intrude on uninvited.
5.
Break so as to fall inward.
6.
Make submissive, obedient, or useful.  Synonym: break.  "I broke in the new intern"





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"Break in" Quotes from Famous Books



... said in answer to Vincent's look of surprise. "They would riddle us here on horseback in the open. Besides, we must dismount to break in ...
— With Lee in Virginia - A Story of the American Civil War • G. A. Henty
... to those who dwell In Slavery's land of woe and sin, And through the blackness of that bell, Let Heaven's own light break in. ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... momentary break in the frightful scene. He passed through the last inhabited spot in the approach to the heart of the Wilderness—the tiny village of Engedi, where were located the ancient limestone reservoirs of water which supplied the lower regions of the ...
— Mystic Christianity • Yogi Ramacharaka
... took place during a break in Elizabeth's morning occupations. She had been busily occupied in collecting and copying out some references from Pausanias, under the Squire's direction. He meanwhile had been cataloguing and noting his new possessions, which, thanks to the aid of his henchman Levasseur, had been already ...
— Elizabeth's Campaign • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... break in their daily routine took place. In that year Messrs. Boulton and Watt visited Paris to meet proposals for their erecting steam engines in France under an exclusive privilege. They were also to suggest improvements on the great hydraulic machine of Marly. Before starting, the ...
— James Watt • Andrew Carnegie


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