Meaning of BREAKAWAY
| Pronunciation: | | 'breyku`wey
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- [n] the act of breaking away or withdrawing from; "there was a breakaway by the discontented members"; "a breaking away from family and neighborhood"
- [adj] having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction"
- [adj] designed to break or tear or come apart easily; "breakaway highway signposts"
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| | Synonyms: | | breaking away, independent, separatist, weak |
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| | See Also: | | secession, withdrawal | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Break"a*way`\, n. [Break + away] [Australasia]
1. A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels
(especially at the smell or the sight of water); a
stampede.
2. An animal that breaks away from a herd.
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| | Related Terms: | | abjuratory, alienated, antagonistic, antiestablishment, antipathetic, apostasy, at odds with, at variance with, backsliding, beat, betrayal, Bohemian, bolt, clashing, conflicting, contradicting, contradictory, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, counter-culture, countervailing, counterworking, cranky, crotchety, defection, dereliction, deserter, desertion, differing, disagreeing, disloyalty, dissentient, dissenting, dissident, extreme, extremistic, factious, faithlessness, far out, free and easy, fringy, going over, heretical, heterodox, hippie, hostile, in opposition, informal, inimical, insurgent, insurrectionary, kinky, maverick, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, mutineering, mutinous, nonconforming, nonconformist, not cricket, not done, not kosher, offbeat, opposing, oppositional, oppugnant, original, perverse, rare, ratting, reactionary, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, recherche, recidivation, recidivism, recreancy, recusant, renitent, renunciative, renunciatory, repudiative, repudiatory, repugnant, resistant, revocatory, revolutional, revolutionary, riotous, schism, schismatic, secession, secessionist, sectarian, sectary, seditionary, seditious, separatist, subversive, sui generis, traitorous, treason, treasonable, turbulent, turning traitor, uncommon, unconventional, uncustomary, underground, undreamed-of, unexpected, unfamiliar, unfashionable, unheard-of, unique, unordinary, unorthodox, unthought-of, unusual, unwonted, walkout, way out |
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