break open
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]break open (third-person singular simple present breaks open, present participle breaking open, simple past broke open, past participle broken open)
- (transitive, intransitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, open.
- Lacking a corkscrew, he broke the bottle open.
- To make a breakthrough on a mystery or problem; to cause a breakthrough to be made.
- I think I broke this case open.
- The new evidence has broken this case open.
Derived terms
[edit]- breakopen (noun)