Break Through

Definition: Break Through

Break Through

Verb

1. Pass through, as through a barrier; "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county".

2. Penetrate; "The sun broke through the clouds".

3. As of teeth, for example; "The tooth erupted and had to be extracted".

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

Synonyms: Break Through

Dereliction of Duty

Verb: violate; break, break through; infringe; set aside, set at naught; encroach upon, trench upon; trample on, trample under foot; slight, neglect, evade, renounce, forswear, repudiate; wash one's hands of; escape, transgress, fail.

Desuetude

Verb: be -unaccustomed; Adjective: leave off a habit, cast off a habit, break off a habit, wean oneself of a habit, violate a habit, break through a habit, infringe a habit, leave off a custom, cast off a custom, break off a custom, wean oneself of a custom, violate a custom, break through a custom, infringe a custom, leave off a usage, cast off a usage, break off a usage, wean oneself of a usage, violate a usage, break through a usage, infringe a usage; disuse; wear off.

Disclosure

Be disclosed; transpire, come to light; come in sight; (be visible); become known, escape the lips; come out, ooze out, creep out, leak out, peep out, crop-out; show its face, show its colors; discover; itself; break through the clouds, flash on the mind.

Crosswords: Break Through

I'm looking for something that'll break through! You know? (Videodrome; writing credit: David Cronenberg)

The only thing that's 'bout to break through is your ass 'bout to break through the seat of your pants. (The Nutty Professor; writing credit: Jerry Lewis; Bill Richmond)

It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side. (Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai; writing credit: Jim Jarmusch)

At times I'd like to break through and hold you endlessly (Sometimes When We Touch; performing artist: Dan Hill)

Moving up it's gonna race, it's gonna break through the borderline. (Union of the Snake; performing artist: Duran Duran)

Waiting for the bright light to break through (Where's The Love; performing artist: Hanson)

Than to sit up here exposing myself trying to break through (... On The Radio (Remember The Days); performing artist: Nelly Furtado)

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Books

• Break Through Difficult Emotions: How to Transform Painful Feelings With Mindfulness Meditation (reference)

• Break Through Pain: How to Relieve Pain Using Powerful Meditation Techniques (reference)

• Break Up or Break Through (reference)

• When Walls Come Tumbling Down: Experiencing God's Power to Break Through Barriers (reference)

  (more book examples)

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This illustration with and without text, titled "How Cancer Spreads" explains the process of metastasis. Once metastatic cells are attached to the basement membrane (a physical barrier that seperates tissue components), they break through with the help of an enzyme called type IV collagenase. Cancer cells then move through the blood stream enabling them to spread to other parts of the body. A secondary tumor may form at another site in the body. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Jane Hurd (artist).

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Thirdly, I answer, that this doctrine of a power in the people of providing for their safety a-new, by a new legislative, when their legislators have acted contrary to their trust, by invading their property, is the best fence against rebellion, and the probablest means to hinder it: for rebellion being an opposition, not to persons, but authority, which is founded only in the constitutions and laws of the government; those, whoever they be, who by force break through, and by force justify their violation of them, are truly and properly rebels: for when men, by entering into society and civil-government, have excluded force, and introduced laws for the preservation of property, peace, and unity amongst themselves, those who set up force again in opposition to the laws, do rebellare, that is, bring back again the state of war, and are properly rebels: which they who are in power, (by the pretence they have to authority, the temptation of force they have in their hands, and the flattery of those about them) being likeliest to do; the properest way to prevent the evil, is to shew them the danger and injustice of it, who are under the greatest temptation to run into it. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Uncle John saw the water break through.

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Health

A closed head injury occurs when the head suddenly and violently hits an object, but the object does not break through the skull. (references)

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Expressions using "break through": break through the barrier ♦ break through the clouds ♦ break through the enemy's ranks ♦ To break through. Additional references.

Albanian

depërtoj (elbow, filter, infiltrate, needle, penetrate, perforate, permeate, seep, soak, thread, worm). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تقدم (advance, advanced, advancement, advantage, antecedence, ascent, career, careerist, come on, crowd, descend, development, evolution, forge ahead, forward, gain ground, gain one's destination, get along, get forward, get on, get up, go ahead, go up, going, head, headway, improvement, keep step, lead, make up on, march, move along, move in, onward, precede, priority, proceed, procession, progress, progression, promotion, propulsion, pull ahead, rise, seniority, shape, shoot ahead, speed, stem, step, superiority, take steps, upturn, way, work up to), ‏تطور (blossom, breakthrough, development, evolution, growth, shape, work out), ‏إقتحم (break, break into, get into a rut, storm), ‏إخترق (cleave, penetrate, perforate, permeate, pierce, sink, transfuse). (various references)

Bulgarian 

прониквам през, пробивам (bore, broach, hole, jump, nip, perforate, pip, prick, rupture, scuttle, sink, smash in), преодолявам (bear down, fight, get over, hurdle, live down, master, negotiate, overcome, overmaster, overpass, overpower, override, overrule, pass over, prevail, ride out, surmount, vanquish, win through). (various references)

Chinese 

闖 (to rush). (various references)

Czech

prorazit èím (force one's way through), prorazit (drive, drive smth. in, drive through, force one's way, get through, Pierce, puncture, put through, stave in). (various references)

Finnish

tunkea läpi (force one's way through, penetrate, permeate), puhkaista (pierce, puncture). (various references)

French

percer (broach), faire une percée, enfoncer (break in). (various references)

German

durchbrechen (appear, breach, break, burst, come through, fall through, penetration, perforate, reveal itself, to breach, to break through). (various references)

Greek 

διασπώ (disintegrate, disrupt, distract, rupture). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפרוץ (breach, break, break forth, burst, crack, demolish, erupt, pry open, spout, spread), לחתור (break into, dig under, subvert, undermine), ל�"בקיע �"רך (force one's way). (various references)

Hungarian

frontáttörés, áttörés (breach, breakthrough, penetration), áttör (breach, mash, penetrate, shoot through, to breach, to break through, to pass through, to rupture, to splinter through). (various references)

Indonesian

terobos (cut a line or queue), pendobrakan (battering), menjebol (break down, penetrate). (various references)

Italian

sfondare (break at the bottom, break the bottom of, knock the bottom out of, push in, roll, stave, stave in). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

突き� �る (to break through, to penetrate, to pierce), 突き抜ける (to break through, to pierce through), 突き崩す (to break through, to crush, to flatten), 突崩す (to break through, to crush, to flatten), 押し� �る (to break through), 吹っ切れる (to become unbound by, to break through, to ooze out), 囲み�'� �る (to break through a siege). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おしやぶる (to break through), ふっきれる (to become unbound by, to break through, to ooze out), つきくずす (to break through, to crush, to flatten), つきぬける (to break through, to pierce through), つきやぶる (to break through, to penetrate, to pierce), か�"み�'やぶる (to break through a siege). (various references)

Manx

gleashaght er oai. (various references)

Pig Latin

eakbray oughthray

Romanian

învinge (beat, best, circumvent, conquer, defeat, discomfit, dispose, drub, flog, floor, get the better of, knock, master, overcome, overmaster, overpower, pull through, reason down, surmount, thrash, vanquish, whip, win, win over, worst), începe sã licãreascã. (various references)

Russian 

прорвать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prodreti (breach, penetrate), probiti (break out, clear, cleave, come through, elbow, fight, force, go through, penetrate, pierce, plow, poke, ram, run through, stave in, thrust, wedge). (various references)

Spanish

venir (come, come across, come of, come round, come through, infiltrate, land, settle, turn up), recorte (clipping, cutout, cutting, scrap, snip, trim), penetrar (bite, diffuse, emerge, fathom, go through, infiltrate, Lodge, penetrate, perforate, permeate, see into, see through, sink in, sink into, soak through, work in), llegar (arrive, blow in, bring up, catch, come, come across, come in, come of, come over, come round, come through, dock, draw in, end up, get, get around, get in, immigrate, infiltrate, invade, jockey, land, last out, pass, pull in, reach, ride up, roll along, roll in, roll up, spend, throw out, to arrive, top off, touch down, travel, turn up, vaporize), empezar a tener éxito (take off), descubrir (come on, come upon, detect, discover, expose, find out, give away, learn, penetrate, pick out, search out, spy, think out, uncover, unlock), crucero (battle cruiser, cruise, cruiser, junction, ocean cruiser, transept), atravesar (cross, cut across, go across, go beyond, go over, outstep, overpass, Pierce, put, transfer, traverse), abrirse paso (press), abrirse camino (pick one's way, shear). (various references)

Swedish

bryta igenom (penetrate). (various references)

Turkish

yarıp geçmek (plough, plow), görünmek (appear, approve oneself, come, come along, come in sight, come in view, come into view, come out, haunt, look, make one's appearance, present oneself, put in an appearance, report, rise, seem, show, show up), doğmak (arise, arrive, be born, begin, come about, emanate, emerge, ensue, grow out of, rise, spring), çıkmak (ascend, break out, climb, come about, come off, come on, come out, come to a head, come up, crop out, date, date up, detach, drop out, emanate, emerge, erupt, escalate, eventuate, exit, extricate oneself, extrude, flirt, get off, go for, go forth, go off, go out, go together, go with, grow out of, grow up, hatch, have it's source in, issue, jut, jut out, keep company with, knock about, knock around, launch, launch out, move out, occur, originate, peep, peep out, photograph, point, present oneself, prove, puff out, puff up, pull out, pullulate, quit, rise, rub off, rub out, sally forth, sally out, secede, separate, shoot out, spoon, spring, stem, step out, step up, stick, stick out, take it's source from, take out, take to, walk out, walk out of, walk out with, well forth, work out). (various references)

Turkmen 

bцwьsmek (penetrate). (various references)

Ukrainian

просіка (cut through, opening, swath), прорватися, прорив (break, break in, eruption, inrush, rupture), пробитися (force in, win through), перемога (achievement, victory, win), досягнення (accomplishment, achievement, arrival, attainment, obtaining, obtainment, obtention, progress). (various references)

perfringere. (various references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: breakthrough.

-4 letters: begorrah, breakout, outbreak, rebought, tabourer.

-5 letters: aborter, abought, bearhug, begorah, begorra, brokage, brother, brought, burgher, garrote, grouter, harbour, hauberk, outbake, outbark, outbrag, outhear, outrage, rougher, taborer, through, tougher, urethra.

+1 letter: breakthroughs.