Break Open

Definition: Break Open

Break Open

Verb

1. Open with force; "He broke open the the picnic basket".

2. Break open or apart suddenly; "The bubble burst".

3. Erupt or intensify suddenly; "Unrest erupted in the country"; "Tempers flared at the meeting".

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

Synonyms: Break Open

Violence

Break out, fly out, burst out; bounce, explode, go off, displode, fly, detonate, thunder, blow up, crump, flash, flare, burst; shock, strain; break open, force open, prize open.

Crosswords: Break Open

Secondly, But this privilege, belonging only to the king's person, hinders not, but they may be questioned, opposed, and resisted, who use unjust force, though they pretend a commission from him, which the law authorizes not; as is plain in the case of him that has the king's writ to arrest a man, which is a full commission from the king; and yet he that has it cannot break open a man's house to do it, nor execute this command of the king upon certain days, nor in certain places, though this commission have no such exception in it; but they are the limitations of the law, which if any one transgress, the king's commission excuses him not: for the king's authority being given him only by the law, he cannot impower any one to act against the law, or justify him, by his commission, in so doing. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Necrotic cells swell and break open, leaking their contents into the surrounding area and provoking an inflammatory response. (references)

To give your child the medicine, break open the gelatin capsule and mix the drug with something sweet, such as applesauce, chocolate syrup, or jelly. (references)

Hemorrhage also occurs when arterial walls break open. Plaque-encrusted artery walls eventually lose their elasticity and become brittle and thin, prone to cracking. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "break open": To break open. Additional references.

Chinese 

�"開 (to break open). (various references)

German

aufbrechen (break, break down, break into, break up, burst open, decamp, force, force open, open, prize off, pry, sally, set off, set out, start, start off, start out, to decamp, to sally). (various references)

Hungarian

feltör (break up, gush out, to break open, to flush, to force sg open, to gush forth, to gush out, to prize open, to prize out, to spout, to strike pay dirt), felfeszít (pry open, to break open, to prize open, to prize out, to pry open). (various references)

Indonesian

bobok (pierce). (various references)

Italian

scassinare (burgle, force). (various references)

Pig Latin

eakbray openay

Russian 

распахивать (open wide, swing open, throw open, zoom, zoom in). (various references)

Spanish

abrirse de par en par, abrir forzando. (various references)

Swedish

bryta (be refracted, break, cut off, diverge, fold, fracture, infract, infringe, kill, mine, modify, quarry, refract, violate). (various references)

effregi, effregit, effringens, effringo, effringo, effregi, effractum, refringerent. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: barkeep, prebake.

-3 letters: aerobe, banker, beaker, berake, borane, boreen, broken, enrobe, opener, pereon, reopen.

-4 letters: akene, apeek, apron, arpen, baker, baron, beano, boner, borne, brake, brank, break, broke, kebar, kerne, kreep, krona, krone, oaken, opera, paeon, pareo, pekan, pekoe, perea, poker, prank, preen, probe, prone, rakee, ranee, rebop.

-5 letters: aeon, aero, akee, aper, bake.