Usually means: Escape from constraints or limitations.
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  1. break free: Merriam-Webster
  2. break free: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. break free: Wiktionary
  4. Break Free (Ariana Grande song), Break Free (Lead the Way), Break Free (TV series), Break Free (disambiguation), Break Free (film), Break Free (song), Break Free: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. break free: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

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  1. break free: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (break free)

▸ verb:  To liberate oneself; to free oneself; to become free (from or of something or someone).

Similar:
break loose, befree, release, set free, free, escape, let loose, liberate, emancipate, break away, more...

Opposite:
get caught, be trapped, be confined, be restrained, be imprisoned

Types:
disentangle, unwind, loosen, release, let go, more...

Phrases:
I Want to Break Free, to break free, break free from, to break free of, more...

Adjectives:
clear, official, free, quit, surplus, predischarge, liberating, desert, emancipate, abstract, term

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Similar:
break loose, befree, release, set free, free, escape, let loose, liberate, emancipate, break away, more...

Opposite:
get caught, be trapped, be confined, be restrained, be imprisoned

Types:
disentangle, unwind, loosen, release, let go, more...

Phrases:
I Want to Break Free, to break free, break free from, to break free of, more...

Adjectives:
clear, official, free, quit, surplus, predischarge, liberating, desert, emancipate, abstract, term



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