English Explanatory Dictionary

break through

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To gain popularity.
  2. To penetrate the defence of the opposition.
  3. To make or force a way through (a barrier).
  4. To cross a perceptual threshold during the use of certain psychedelics in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, through.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

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