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break loose

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Verb1.break loose - be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise; "His anger exploded"
change state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election"
2.break loose - run away from confinement; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"
break away, break out, break - move away or escape suddenly; "The horses broke from the stable"; "Three inmates broke jail"; "Nobody can break out--this prison is high security"
escape from, shake off, throw off, shake - get rid of; "I couldn't shake the car that was following me"
elude, evade, bilk - escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"
flee, take flight, fly - run away quickly; "He threw down his gun and fled"
slip - move smoothly and easily; "the bolt slipped into place"; "water slipped from the polished marble"
run away - escape from the control of; "Industry is running away with us all"
get away, escape - remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion; "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"; "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer"

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With her means of protection gone, Lys was now at the mercy of the hatchet-man; nor was it many hours before he had caught her at the base of the cliff and seized her; but as he bore her triumphantly aloft toward his cave, she had managed to break loose and escape him.
Love is his tyrant, and lives lordly in him and lawlessly, and being himself a king, leads him on, as a tyrant leads a State, to the performance of any reckless deed by which he can maintain himself and the rabble of his associates, whether those whom evil communications have brought in from without, or those whom he himself has allowed to break loose within him by reason of a similar evil nature in himself.
"Expect all hell to break loose," he cautioned me, "but don't mind it.
 
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