Break In

Definition: Break In

Break In

Verb

1. Enter someone's property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act; "Someone broke in while I was on vacation"; "They broke into my car and stole my radio!".

2. Break into a conversation; "her husband always chimes in, even when he is not involved in the conversation".

3. Start in a certain activity, enterprise, or role.

4. Intrude on uninvited: "The nosy couple broke in on our conversation"; "She irrupted into our sitting room".

5. Break so as to call inward; "He broke in the door".

6. Make submissive, obedient, or useful, as of wild animals or new items: "The horse was tough to break"; used metaphorically for people.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Literature

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Synonyms: Break In

Arrangement

Verb: derange; disarrange, misarrange; displace, misplace; mislay, discompose, disorder; deorganize, discombobulate, disorganize; embroil, unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble; shuffle, randomize; huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot; bring into disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder; muss; break the ranks, disconcert, convulse; break in upon.

Discontinuity

Discontinue, pause, interrupt; intervene; break, break in upon, break off; interpose; break the thread, snap the thread; disconnect; (disjoin); dissever.

Hindrance

Run foul of, fall foul of; cross the path of, break in upon.

Husbandry

Verb: tame, domesticate, acclimatize, breed, tend, break in, train; cage, bridle,. (restrain).

Ingress

Verb: have the entree; enter; go into, go in, come into, come in, pour into, pour in, flow into, flow in, creep into, creep in, slip into, slip in, pop into, pop in, break into, break in, burst into, burst in; set foot on; ingress; burst in upon, break in upon; invade, intrude; insinuate itself; interpenetrate, penetrate; infiltrate; find one's way into, wriggle into, worm oneself into.

Subjection

Break in, tame; subject, subjugate; master; tread down, tread under foot; weigh down; drag at one's chariot wheels; reduce to subjection, reduce to slavery; enthrall, inthrall, bethrall; enslave, lead captive; take into custody; (restrain); rule; drive into a corner, hold at the sword's point; keep under; hold in bondage, hold in leading strings, hold in swaddling clothes.

Teaching

Train, discipline; bring up, bring up to; form, ground, prepare, qualify; drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture, drynurse, breed, rear, take in hand; break, break in; tame; preinstruct; initiate; inure; (habituate).

Untimeliness

Verb: be ill timed; Adjective: mistime, intrude, come amiss, break in upon; have other fish to fry; be busy, be occupied.

Crosswords: Break In

This is what I do, if some idiot with a sledgehammer could break in do you really think I'd still have a job? (Panic Room; writing credit: David Koepp)

Cops don't knock, they break in. (Internes Can't Take Money; writing credit: Max Br; Rian James)

LIKE A BREAK IN THE BATTLE WAS YOUR PART, OH OH OH OH (BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG; performing artist: The Pretenders)

Break in the Circle (1955)

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Books

• A Break in Your Cycle: The Medical and Emotional Causes and Effects of Amenorrhea (reference)

• Break in (reference)

• Egypt and Libya from Inside, 1969-1976: The Qaddafi Revolution and the Eventual Break in Relations, by the Former Egyptian Ambassador to Libya (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Fog tumbling through a break in the mountains at Prince William Sound. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A break in the rocks. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Betty and Gene Bradley, managers of the Knights Landing Harbor Apartments, CA., take a break in the quad of the complex. Credit: USDA.

Coming into Ulithi Anchorage on 24 November 1944, during a break in operations off the Philippines. Photographed from USS Wasp (CV-18). Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz has autographed the original print. Credit: NAVY.

Coffee break in the Chief Petty Officers' mess, 18 January 1938. Note the cold storage locker in the background. Credit: NAVY.

Watercolor by James Alden, depicting the monitors USS Neosho and Osage running through a break in the Red River dam to pass safely over the rapids, 9 May 1864. This passage took advantage of an accidental break in the dam, which was being built by Army engineers to raise the river level enough to permit passage of all the vessels trapped above. Four gunboats passed through at this time: Lexington (which went first), Neosho (second), Fort Hindman and Osage. Credit: NAVY.

I couldn't bring myself to break in on the poor things. Credit: Library of Congress.

A break in the team. Credit: Library of Congress.

Operator of winding machine in Laurel Cotton Mill repairing break in thread. Laurel, Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress.

Operator repairing break in thread in warp winding. Laurel cotton mills, Laurel, Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Here from the world I win release, Nor scorn of men, nor footstep rude, Break in to mar the holy peace Of this great solitude.

It was like a break in the cloud, but the cloud again became black.

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Health

Wear shoes that fit your feet well and allow your toes to move. Break in new shoes gradually, wearing them for only an hour at a time at first. (references)

Less frequently, the organism enters through a break in the skin by direct contact with tissue or body fluids of a plague-infected animal, for instance, in the process of skinning a rabbit or other animal. (references)

Rhegmatogenous [reg-ma-TAH-jenous] -- A tear or break in the retina causes it to separate from the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), the pigmented cell layer that nourishes the retina, and fill with fluid. (references)

Economic History

Guyana

However, if the government starts negotiating a break in the monopoly license, GT&T says its expansion program might have to be put on hold. (references)

Zimbabwe

A break in this downward spiral must be engineered, and though the selective devaluation for gold producers announced by the Reserve Bank in April 2000 is a step in this direction, it is insufficient to reverse the slide still being experienced. (references)

Moldova

During the 1998-1999, foreign investment slowed primarily due to the 1998 Russian financial crisis and a break in IMF and World Bank financial support in 1999. In 2000, annual foreign investment inflows once again reached 1997 levels and continued to grow in the first quarter of 2001. Note: Moldova failed to fulfill IMF conditionality, when parliament refused to privatize the wine and tobacco sectors in 1999. The IMF resumed its support in December 2000 by giving USD 12 million tranche (the first one out of USD 142 million for a three-year period), and cut its support again in March 2001 with no indication as to when it would resume in the near future. (references)

Travel

Bolivia

In Santa Cruz the tropical climate demands that work begins and ends earlier, beginning at 7 or 8 a.m. and ending about 4:30 p.m., with a two-hour lunch break in the middle of the day. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "break in": break in a talk ♦ break in pensionable service ♦ break in pieces ♦ break in the clouds ♦ break in the journey ♦ break in the work ♦ break in two ♦ break in upon ♦ To break in ♦ To break in upon. Additional references.

Albanian

vjedh me thyerje, stërvit (coach, discipline, drill, educate, exercise, practise, train), hyj në një profession, grabis (burgle, hold up, pillage, pirate, pluck, plunder, prey, prey upon, Rob, steal), futem me dhunë, futem (affiliate, be propagated, dive, drive into, enter, get into, go in, interfere, join, join in, launch, lend oneself to, penetrate, plough into, plunge, sink in, slide, start, stuff, worm). (various references)

Arabic 

‏روض (break, domesticate, gentle, manage, master, school, tame, thaw, train). (various references)

Bulgarian 

срутвам се (calve, collapse, crash, fall down, fall in, topple, tumble down), укротявам (calm down, cow, manage, master, mollify, pacify, settle, subdue, tame, twit), разработвам нова кола, вмъквам се в, обяздвам (bust, gentle, train), опитомявам (domesticate, gentle, reclaim, tame), нахлувам (burst, burst in, congest, encroach, invade, irrupt, surge), намесвам се (burst in, butt, chime in, cut in, interfere, interpose, interrupt, intervene, meddle, put in, step in), прекъсвам (break off, catch up, cease, cut, discontinue, halt, intercept, interpose, interrupt, open, pretermit, quit, release, stop, switch off, throw out), дресирам (discipline, tame, train). (various references)

Chinese 

拗 (bend, break in two, contrary, stubborn). (various references)

Czech

zkrotit (break, quell, reclaim), vloupat se, vloupání (breaking in, housebreaking), rozchodit. (various references)

Danish

taemme (domesticate), domesticere (domesticate). (various references)

Dutch

temmen (tame, train). (various references)

Finnish

opettaa (instruct, teach, train), kouluttaa (educate, prick out, train, transplant), kesyttää (domesticate, tame). (various references)

French

enfoncer (break through), dresser, dompter, domestiquer, défoncer. (various references)

German

einbrechen (break down, break into, break through, burglarize, burgle, cave in, fall, fall in, set in). (various references)

Greek 

συνηθίζω (accustom, get accustomed, get used to, habituate, inure, use), παραβιάζω (breach, break, infringe, tamper with, violate, violcte), εξημερώνω (civilize, domesticate, tame). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תפרץ (barge in, break out, burst, flare up, gush, jet, make a scene, surge), ל�'ו�" (attack, fall upon, raid). (various references)

Hungarian

betör (break into, burgle, invade, to break in, to bulge in, to bung, to burglarize, to burgle, to crack, to foray, to invade, to niche, to smash, wear in), beomlik (cave, to cave in, to close in, to crash in, to fall down, to fall in, to founder, to slump), félbeszakít (interrupt, to break off, to intermit, to interrupt, to respite). (various references)

Indonesian

nyeletuk (interrupt), menceletuk, membongkar (burglar, demolish, disclose, dismantle, force open, open up, pry, unload, unpack). (various references)

Italian

irruzione (inrush, irruption, raid), domare (bend, break, quell, tame), addomesticare (domesticate, tame). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

雨�" (break in the rain), 雨止み (break in the rain, waiting for a break in the rain), �"開 (break in the deadlock), 乗り馴らす (to break in), 使い慣らす (to accustom oneself to using, to break in, to train). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

のりならす (to break in), つかいならす (to accustom oneself to using, to break in, to train), あまあい (break in the rain), あまやみ (break in the rain, waiting for a break in the rain), � かい (break in the deadlock). (various references)

Manx

brishey stiagh (beat in, burgle, burst in, burst open, encroach, encroachment, gate crashing, intrude, intrusion, stave in). (various references)

Pig Latin

eakbray inay

Portuguese

domar (gentle, manage, rough, tame, train), amansar (gentle, rough, tame, train). (various references)

Romanian

pãtrunde cu forţa (muscle in), forţa o uşã, dresa un animal, întrerupe conversaţia, întrerupe (adjourn, break, break off an engagement, call off, catch, check, cut, discontinue, drop, intermit, interrupt, shut off, stop, suspend, switch off). (various references)

Russian 

разнашивать (wear in), врываться (pounce, violate), выламывать (break out), взламывать (break, burglarize, force, pry open), вломиться, вламываться (break). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

upadati, razrada (breaking in), provaliti u, provala (breaking in, burglary, housebreaking, irruption), prekinuti u, izvršiti provalu. (various references)

Spanish

domar (break, bust, tame). (various references)

Swedish

tämja (bust, curb, domesticate, harness, tame), plötsligt avbryta, domesticera (domesticate). (various references)

Turkish

zorla girmek (break into, irrupt, obtrude, storm), terbiye etmek (bring up, chasten, discipline, edify, educate, housebreak, manage, nurture, polish, rough, school, teach manners, train), sözünü kesmek (chip in, cut in, cut smb. short, interrupt, punctuate, put in a word, take smb. up short, take up), lafa karışmak (barge in, break into, strike in), alıştırmak (accommodate, accustom, addict, adjust, attune, condition, conform, dovetail, enure, exercise, familiarize, habituate, harden, inure, regrind, school, season, train). (various references)

Ukrainian

втручатися (butt in, come between, cut in, edge in, encroach, interfere, interject, intermediate, intermit, interpose, intervene, meddle, pry), виламувати (break out), вдиратися (encroach on, invade), прорив (break, break through, eruption, inrush, rupture). (various references)

Welsh

dryllio (break in pieces, shatter). (various references)

domita, domito, effregit, effringens, infreno, ingruente, ingruerit, perforabis, perforabit, perforabitque, perforabunt, perforari, perforatur. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Break In" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: breakin. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: banker.

-2 letters: bairn, baker, biker, brain, brake, brank, break, brine, brink, inker, kebar, reink.

-3 letters: abri, airn, akin, bake, bane, bani, bank, bare, bark, barn, beak, bean, bear, bier, bike, bine, birk, brae, bran, bren, brie, brin, earn, kain, kane, karn, kbar, keir, kerb, kern, kibe, kier, kina, kine, kirn, knar, nabe, nark.

+1 letter: barnlike, bearskin, beraking, breaking, ninebark.

+2 letters: bearskins, breakings, debarking, drinkable, embarking, interbank, karabiner, ninebarks, prebaking, riverbank, snakebird, windbreak.

+3 letters: barkentine, bracketing, drinkables, karabiners, linebacker, overbaking, ringbarked, riverbanks, shrinkable, snakebirds, windbreaks.

+4 letters: aerobraking, barkentines, bedarkening, cabinetwork, debarkation, embarkation, keyboarding, lawbreaking, linebackers, rainbowlike, reembarking, tiebreaking, undrinkable, windbreaker.

+5 letters: backbreaking, bankruptcies, benchmarking, brackishness, breakfasting, breathtaking, cabinetmaker, cabinetworks, crackbrained, debarkations, disembarking, embarkations, greenbackism, lawbreakings, pathbreaking, windbreakers.