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break away

(NOT AGREE) phrasal verb with break
 
 
/breɪk/ verb (broke, broken)

Definition

to stop being part of a group because you begin to disagree with them: In the early 1980s some members of the British Labour Party broke away to form the Social Democratic Party.Causing something to endComing to an end
(Definition of break away (NOT AGREE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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