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break through
verb
- intr to penetrate
- intr, adverb to achieve success, make a discovery, etc, esp after lengthy efforts
noun
- a significant development or discovery, esp in science
- the penetration of an enemy's defensive position or line in depth and strength
Idioms and Phrases
Penetrate a barrier or obstruction, as in They broke through the wall to get into the vault , or It won't be long before we break through the code and map all human genes . Used literally for going through a physical barrier since about 1400, this phrase began to be used figuratively in the late 1500s.Example Sentences
It seems the star who first broke through singing about a boyfriend's mood swings now faces an icy reception.
"Whether you follow the club or not, there's always some sort of negative connotations to everything that happens at the club, but that's existed for a very long time - you need to break through that."
Are we at a moment where this could break through?
At 14:20, protesters finally broke through the police blockade and reached the road running alongside parliament.
The drug, he told her, had finally broken through his English reserve: “It was the first time I could really cry.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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