break with

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break with

(intr, preposition) to end a relationship or association with (someone or an organization or social group)

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break with - end a relationship; "China broke with Russia"

break up, part, split, split up, separate, break - discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"

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If, seized by an intolerable boredom, he had determined to be a painter merely to break with irksome ties, it would have been comprehensible, and commonplace; but commonplace is precisely what I felt he was not.

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IN the Huddersfield Open snooker Golcar Conservative's B team player Mick Stocks scored the highest break with a 48.