Thesaurus / break with
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Were you ever arrested, having in your custody another man's cash, and would rather go to gaol, than break it?
THE LIFE AND MOST SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, OF YORK, MARINER (1801)DANIEL DEFOEIf old Piegan Smith hadn't been sampling the contents of that keg so industriously he would never have made a break.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRGeneral Houston had attacked them with three hundred of our people, but had not been able to break their ranks.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSFor good or ill, the torrent of rebellion was suffered to break loose, and it soon engulfed a continent.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYVictor was the younger son and brother—a tete montee, with a temper which invited violence and a will which no ax could break.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINLong before that, however, the sun had come back to gladden the Polar regions, and break up the reign of ancient night.
THE GIANT OF THE NORTHR.M. BALLANTYNEYou know I don't express myself easily; so, if I break out this way, you may know what I feel.
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMESSay that my anger has no bounds—that my heart is breaking—will break and kill me, if he persists in his ingratitude and cruelty.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSSometimes he looks at me as if he were going to break out with that crazy idea to which he treated me the other day.
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMESHe had to break his way through the thickets, see that some kind of a line was kept, and that orders were being executed.
THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNNWORDS RELATED TO BREAK WITH
- altercated
- argued
- battled
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- brawled
- broke with
- bumped
- carped
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- dishonor
- disinherit
- dismiss
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- flush
- fly in the face of
- forsake
- nix
- oust
- rat
- recant
- refuse
- renounce
- repeal
- reprobate
- rescind
- retract
- reverse
- revoke
- spurn
- tergiversate
- tergiverse
- turn
- turn down
- wash one's hands of
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