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Break in

verb

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?"

Break into a conversation. Synonyms: barge in, butt in, chime in, chisel in, cut in, put in.

Start in a certain activity, enterprise, or role.

Intrude on uninvited.

Break so as to fall inward.

Make submissive, obedient, or useful. Synonym: break. "I broke in the new intern"

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"Break in" Quotes from Famous Books

... are two jaguars, without speaking of the brace of cachorros. These I shall leave to you, since you have no weapon. Your plan will be this: take up one of the whelps in each hand, and break in their skulls, by striking them one against the rather. Nothing can be ...

— The Tiger Hunter • Mayne Reid

... Van Horn came over from Van Horn's early, Bradley told his hearers brokenly. They asked for Barb and he was down at the creek. Barb had sent Bradley about a mile below the house to repair a small break in the irrigation ditch and had ridden down to show him what he wanted done. After giving instructions, he had started back for the house. Before he got far, Stone and Van Horn met him. Bradley heard voices up the creek but paid no special ...

— Laramie Holds the Range • Frank H. Spearman

... tables for ever-increasing stakes. Mellish kept an eye on him for a time. The boy was having the luck of most beginners. He played a reckless game and won hand over fist. As one man had enough and rose from the table another eagerly took his place, but there was no break in the boy's winnings. ...

— The Face And The Mask • Robert Barr

... back in Guy Livingstone's veins, and froze at its fountain-head. His punishment had begun already. Before her face, white as the dress she wore, was revealed through a break in the dark green foliage of the camellias, he knew that he had trifled away his life's ...

— Guy Livingstone; - or, 'Thorough' • George A. Lawrence

... a real event, a real break in Edith's life. For the first few months after she suffered, missing the excitement of Aylmer's controlled passion, and his congenial society. Gradually she made herself—not forget it—but put aside, ignore the whole incident. It gave her genuine satisfaction to know that she had made a ...

— Love at Second Sight • Ada Leverson

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