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breaking off

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Noun1.breaking offbreaking off - an instance of sudden interruption  
abruption
disruption, interruption, gap, break - an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account"


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Now it is the proper business of the public assembly to determine concerning war and peace, making or breaking off alliances, to enact laws, to sentence to death, banishment, or confiscation of goods, and to call the magistrates to account for their behaviour when in office.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
The breaking off, in the midst of that one was about to say, as if he took himself up, breeds a greater appetite in him with whom you confer, to know more.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
"People don't like his religious tone," said Lydgate, breaking off there.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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