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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

... did the sturdy old warrior rage and roar when he found himself thus entrapped, like a lion in the hunter's toil! Now did he draw his trusty sword, and determine to break in upon the council of the Amphictyons, and put every mother's son of them to death. Now did he resolve to fight his way throughout all the regions of the east, and to lay ...

— Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete • Washington Irving

... nurseries, and playing on the wide verandahs were happy, healthy babes; their merry shouts filled the spaces in the conversation. Sometimes a little toddling thing would find her way across to the prayer-room, and break in upon the talk with affectionate caresses. To our eyes everything looked so happy, so incomparably better than anything the Temple house could offer, that it was difficult to adjust one's mental vision so as to ...

— Lotus Buds • Amy Carmichael

... gentleman accustomed to the saddle, and the great wide strides taken by Buffalo even the Pastor observed with astonishment. Suddenly Hardy turned and came at the garden wall, with Buffalo well in hand, who rose to the jump and cleared it easily, and out through a break in the shrubbery over the wall ...

— A Danish Parsonage • John Fulford Vicary

... hoping to do. Gently, I slipped a ring with a single setting over her finger, then bending low, I touched the hand with my lips—whitest, softest, dearest hand in God's world. Then I heard her breath break in a sob, and felt upon my hair the falling of ...

— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge

... of Miss Sally made a break in the orderly progress of the picnic, for it not only terminated her part of the day's pleasures, but also cut short her visit in Clarence, and she had to say farewell to all the picnickers ...

— Kilo - Being the Love Story of Eliph' Hewlitt Book Agent • Ellis Parker Butler

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