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Breakaway n. (Australasia)

A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels (especially at the smell or the sight of water); a stampede.

An animal that breaks away from a herd.

An object designed to break off or shatter under impact, as a safety measure.

(Sport) The sudden emergence of one or more players or contestants from a clustered group, rushing toward a goal, as bicyclists in a race, or baketball players after a rebound has been caught.

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Etymology of 'Breakaway'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Breakaway" Quotes from Famous Books

... web was no barrier to vision. He was on top of the world, at the doorstep to space, looking down on fantastic activity below. The rocket curved sweetly away below him, down to the sharp lines of the great stabilizer fins. He noted the breakaway zone where the first stage and second stage were joined. He could see, as one perched on a cloud, the tiny, ...

— The Scarlet Lake Mystery • Harold Leland Goodwin

... rustle of brocades on a polished floor, came terrible shrieks and groans that made the heart of each wedding guest stand still. There could be no doubt from which room they came, and the panic-struck company dashed upstairs like a breakaway mob of cattle. The best man, livid-faced and with a shaking hand, unlocked the door, and on the threshold stumbled over the body of the bridegroom, terribly wounded and streaming with blood. At ...

— Stories of the Border Marches • John Lang and Jean Lang

... along with his National Movement party. Progress on market reforms and democratization has been made in the years since independence, but this progress has been complicated by Russian assistance and support to the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Georgian military action in South Ossetia in early August 2008 led to a Russian military response that not only occupied the breakaway areas, but large portions of Georgia proper ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... mad with indignation at this ruffian's gross behaviour but feebly expresses my mental condition; to such a state of fury was I stirred that but for the restraining hold of the fair girl upon my arm— from which she by no means suffered me to breakaway—I should most assuredly have "run amok" among the mutineers, and in all probability have been killed by them in self-defence; as it was, my anger and the bitterly humiliating conviction of my utter helplessness so nearly overcame me that I was seized with an attack ...

— The Castaways • Harry Collingwood

Words linked to "Breakaway" : breaking away, withdrawal, fissiparous