break in
动词- To enter a place by force or illicit means. · Someone broke in and stole his radio.
- To smash (something) by forcing it inward.
- To reach a state of functioning more smoothly through use or wear; to cause (something, or someone, new) to undergo this change. · These shoes will be more comfortable after they have broken in.· These shoes will be more comfortable after I have broken them in.
- Starting something brand new or at a new level. · He broke in with the New York Yankees.
- To tame; make obedient; to train to follow orders of the owner.
- To take the virginity of a girl, to deflower.
- To interrupt one's conversation; speak before another person has finished speaking.
- To initiate a new person into prostitution or prison sex acts.
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Lynde says he is improving every day and the first thing we know some city church will gobble him up and then we’ll be left and have to turn to and break in another green preacher.
He may have met him there, may even have helped him to break in the door, and then they may have fallen out between themselves.”
Why should a thief try to break in at a bedroom window, where there could be no hope of any plunder, and why should he come with a long knife in his hand?”
We had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he roused himself from his reverie.
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