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Break loose

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To escape; to free oneself.

    "They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups."

  2. 2
    be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise wordnet
  3. 3
    run away from confinement wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English breken los, breken lous, breken lowse, equivalent to break + loose.

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