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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

... dust-cloth, standing there a moment, leaning a little out, her eyes turned to the parsonage. Pauline was coming up the path, Shirley and Bell were with her. They were laughing and talking, the bright young voices making a pleasant break in the quiet of the garden. It seemed to Hilary, as if she could catch the wistful look in Jane's faded eyes, a look only half consciously so, as if the old woman reached out vaguely for something that her own youth ...

— The S. W. F. Club • Caroline E. Jacobs

... Jehovah sent a furious wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest, so that the ship threatened to break in pieces. Then the sailors were afraid and cried, each to his own god; and they cast into the sea the wares that were in the ship, in order to lighten it. But Jonah had gone down into the bottom of the ship; and he lay fast asleep. And the captain of the ...

— The Makers and Teachers of Judaism • Charles Foster Kent

... feet have trod the Road Advise not wayside folk, Nor till thy back has borne the Load Break in upon the Broke. ...

— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling

... into Andrew's arms, clung round his neck, and cried, "Father, father!" They neither could speak a word after this for a long time,—too many things were crowding upon them. After a little, Wiseli felt a sudden light that seemed to break in upon her thoughts; and she ...

— Rico And Wiseli - Rico And Stineli, And How Wiseli Was Provided For • Johanna Spyri

... devotion and the adventures of Ivanhoe and Nigel, Agnew Greatorix had made many pilgrimages to Craig Ronald. Here the advent of the captain was much talked over by the maids, and even anticipated by Winsome herself as a picturesque break in the monotony of the staid country life. Certainly he brought the essence of strength and youth and athletic energy into the quiet court-yard, when he rode in on his showily paced horse and reined him round at the low steps of the front door, with ...

— The Lilac Sunbonnet • S.R. Crockett

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